AO: The analyst notes that decolonization in the 60s led many anthropologists to reflect on the role of the discipline in the colonial project and to be sensitive to the role of
AO: The analysts leverages scholarship critiqing the “lone (male) ethnographer” to highlight the inherently interactive process of knowledge production.
AO: The analyst notes complaints that went to AAA against unethical practice by some anthropologists in the field which led to reports against that individual.
AO: The authors are largely influenced by and citing 1970s and 80s feminist theory (they are also publishing in notable feminist journal, Signs). They are interested in “writing the...Read more
AO: Analysts note that in crossdisciplinary collaborations, individuals experience their alterity and both sides’ work is defamiliarized and out of that emerges a need
AO: Analysts hypothesize that “Open and organic information cultures are associated with the use of collaborative electronic media for information sharing.” Their results are in fact
AO: The analyst looks at collaborative relationship anthropologists establish with indigenous intellectuals and activists, arguing that these relationships necessarily make
AO: The analysts cite the interdependence notion in social exchange theory that implies that organizational context causes people to rise above their self-interest rational impulses
AO: Fortun and Cherkasky introduce essays that speak from the “messy middle” between the university and direct engagements with politics to suggest how “critiques of expertise can...Read more
This article from 1992 looks at the macro-level data on international co-authorship collaboration.Read more