Welcome to everyone visiting from the _Chronicle of Higher Education_, which recently “featured The Mana’o Project in an article on open access and anthropology”:http://chronicle.com/temp/email2.php?id=tkmfdpWktqm9xRcfZZtvkkpxGdq4sDYK. Please feel free to check the links on the right to learn more about our project!
Mana’o is proud to host the book The Persistence of the Gift: Tonga Tradition in Transnational Context by the anthropologist Mike Evans. Dr. Evans’s publishers allowed him to make the book available online in order to allow the people of Tonga access to it. We are glad to have this opportunity to make it available to them, and to demonstrate the utility of an open access repository which includes not just unpublished papers, but published monographs as well.
Mana’o is proud to announce a series of new acquisitions focused on research being done on the massively multiplayer online game World of Warcraft. These include:
“Just Like IRL”: Play, Spatiality and Sociality in Online Fantasy Games
An MA thesis by Efe Levant from University College London
Being in the World (of Warcraft): Raiding, Care, and Digital Subjectivity
A paper by Alex Golub presented at the American Anthropological Association meetings in 2007
Opening the Black Box of Digital Technologies: Mods in World of Warcraft
A paper by Bonnie Nardi and Jannis Kallinikos presented at European Group for Organization Studies Colloquium 2007
Learning Conversations in World of Warcraft
A paper by Bonnie Nardi presented at the 40th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences in 2007
We are very pleased to be able to present such cutting edge work on such an interesting subject here at Mana’o. If you are doing similar work and have material you would like to deposit, simply email to submissions@manaoproject.org and we will be happy to work with you.
We have just begun this site to spread information about the Mana’o project. On this site you can download our current pamphlet, read about the project, and visit the repository itself. Please note the repository may have additional down time as we work to get it up and running. And as always to submit to Mana’o just email your work to submissions at manaoproject dot org. Thanks for coming by.