Spring 2008 Frameworks Documentary Film Series Lineup

This semester's lineup for the Frameworks Documentary Series begins Thursday, February 7. As before, all screenings start at 5:00 p.m. in the Leavey Library auditorium. Here's the schedule:

February 7, 5:00 p.m.- American Movie (1999, Chris Smith and Sarah Price, 104 mins)
This film follows Mark Borchardt of Milwaukee as he battles his personal demons and enlists everyone he knows to pursue his American Dream: to make his no-budget horror film, “Coven.”

February 21, 5:00 p.m.-No End in Sight (2007, Charles Ferguson, Jennie Amias, et al., 102 mins)Analytical and investigative, this chronicle presents an insider's look at the decisions that led to the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq and the handling of the occupation.

March 6, 5:00 p.m.-Bright Leaves (2003, Ross McElwee, 105 mins)Ross McElwee (Sherman’s March) explores his family’s roots as tobacco farmers in North Carolina in this wryly observant exploration of history, economics, psychology, and filmmaking.

March 27, 5:00 p.m.-The Future of Food (2004, Deborah Koons Garcia and Catherine Lynn Butler, 88 mins)In her investigation of modern industrial agriculture, Koons Garcia unravels the complex web of market and political forces that are changing the nature of what we eat.

April 10, 5:00 p.m. – Double Feature! Sa-i-gu (1993, Christine Choy, Elaine H. Kim, and Dai Sil Kim-Gibson, 41 mins)This film explores the effect of the Rodney King verdict and subsequent April 29, 1992 upheavals on Korean American women shopkeepers, who suffered more than half of the material losses in the conflict.
Wet Sand: Voices from L.A. Ten Years Later (2003, Dai Sil Kim-Gibson, 60 mins)Kim-Gibson's follow-up to "Sa-i-gu" looks into the past and present to question how much has changed in the last ten years following the 1992 L.A. unrest.

What Defines A Community? (from AnthroVlog)

This footage was taken at the SouthTube meeting in Georgia on September 22-23, 2007.

New Open Access Repository For Anthropology!

MANAO is a new Open Access repository for anthropology sponsored by the Department of Anthropology at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa. In Hawai’ian “mana’o” means thoughts, ideas, knowledge, or opinions—when making decisions together people in Hawai’i often ask for each other’s mana’o. The Mana’o project combines anthropology’s commitment with the ideal of ‘open access’ with open source software’s focus on free technology. The goal is to provide tools that allow scholars to better communicate with each other and with the world.

Mana’o will ‘soft-launch’ in late-November 2007 during the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association in Washington D.C. They are currently inviting early adopters to submit work that will be featured in this launch. At the moment they are specifically interested in:

BA Theses
MA Theses
Ph.D. Theses
Articles in peer-reviewed journals
Papers given at academic conferences
Digitized books

If you would like to deposit your work, simply email it to submissions@manaoproject.org and the staff will process it and deposit it in Mana’o. If you already have your publications online, send them the URL. Please note that they can only deposit documents that are in the public domain, documents for which you clearly hold the copyright, or documents for which the copyright owner (typically, the publisher) permits authors to deposit their work in a repository such as this.

New Documentary Film Series in Leavey Library

Beginning on Sept. 20th, there will be documentary films screened in Leavey Library's Auditorium at 5pm every other Thursday. Screenings are free, and each film will be introduced by a USC Faculty member. Below is the schedule for Fall semester:


Thursday, Sept. 20, 5 pm: Control Room (2004, Jehane Noujaim)

Thursday, Oct. 4, 5 pm: The Gleaners and I (2000, Agnes Varda)

Thursday, Oct. 18, 5 pm: Ethnic Notions (1986, Marlon Riggs)

Thursday, Nov. 1, 5 pm: Stranger with a Camera (2000, Elizabeth Barrett)

Thursday, Nov. 15, 5 pm: Southern Comfort (2001, Kate Davis)

Change in ARES course reserves log in procedure

Beginning Monday, September 10th, 2007, USC Libraries Electronic and Physical Reserves system, ARES, (http://usc.ares.atlas-sys.com) will be changing the way we authenticate users to access the system.

Users will no longer need to register for the service or remember their ARES username and password. We will be switching to LDAP authentication where the user enters the USC email ID (without the "@usc.edu") as the username and their USC email password to access the system.

There will be no changes to their current account and access. Future enhancements to this authentication are forthcoming as the university improves the process by which we authenticate users into library systems.

Big Changes Afoot for eHRAF- test out the new interface!

On February 1, 2008, eHRAF is planning on implementing a new interface. The currently named "eHRAF Collection of Ethnography" will be renamed "eHRAF World Cultures." The following are available in beta-test versions starting Sept. 1st:

eHRAF World Cultures username: betatester password: hraf0801

eHRAF Archaeology

Then, if you want to suggest changes, fill out the survey.

*In September, the following cultures will be added to eHRAF World Cultures: Gusii, Mongolia, Inner Mongolia, Iran, Lur, Aleut, Sea Islanders, Yapese, Tongans, and Jivaro.

*In October, the following archaeological traditions will be added to the eHRAF Archaeology site: Tarya Neolithic, Protohistoric Egypt, Eastern Early Archaic, Eastern Late Archaic, Eastern Early Woodland, Adena, Mississippian, Early Mesoamerican Archaic.

AAA switching from Univ of Ca Press to Wiley-Blackwell!!

August 20, 2007 (from the Chronicle)
AnthroSource Apparently Is Moving to a New Publisher
The American Anthropological Association apparently will end its publishing relationship with the University of California Press at the end of 2007. William E. Davis, the association’s executive director, confirmed widespread reports today that his group was in serious negotiations with Wiley-Blackwell.
“We are in discussions with them about the details of a contract for them to serve as our publishing partner for both our print and electronic journals,” Mr. Davis told The Chronicle. And Rebecca Simon, the California press’s associate director for journals and digital publishing, said today that the association had not renewed its contract with the press.
If the Wiley-Blackwell deal goes through, California will lose a prestigious portfolio of journals, including American Anthropologist, Cultural Anthropology, and the Medical Anthropology Quarterly, as well as AnthroSource, a major online archive of the anthropological association’s publications