Acting Like a Thief Documentary

Acting Like a Thief is a very interesting 15 minutes documentary by P. Kerim Friedman & Shashwati Talukdar. It evolves around:

a Chhara tribal theatre group in Ahmedabad, India. Starting with the arrest of playwright DaKxin Bajrange (Chhara), the documentary reveals how the Budhan Theatre has transformed the lives of adults and children within the community.Chhara tribals were notified as “natural criminals” by the British in 1871 and imprisoned in a labor camp in Ahmedabad. After Indian independence, they were de-notified, but the stigma of being a “born criminal” follows them to this day. The Budhan Theatre was inspired by the activism work of Mahasweta Devi.

You can watch the documentary on the filmmakers’ website
Here where you can download the documentary’s study guide as states in its website

I enjoyed watching it so much and many thanks for its filmmakes ( Kerim and Shashwati) to keep this documentary open online for individual usage. Again, it is a very interesting documentary.

Enjoy

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Updates Open Access Anthropology Day

I am sharing with you here further posts which contributed to OAA Day

Paul wrote a post entitled Making Your Work Available (Open Access Anthropology Day) in which Paul discusses the idea of Self Archiving

Angels wrote a post in which she is sharing with us her story and experience regarding Open Access in Anthropology as well as her plans for Open Access Anthropology and how she is contributing to OAA Day and OAA in general …Here are few quotes from what she wrote:

…start an anthropology journal that will publish and be open access (got my title, ISSN application and editorial boad sorted). The Open Access Anthropology Journal will be called on the lines of “Anthropology Journal: Dissent and Cultural Politics in our Altermodern Age”…

working towards self-archiving papers and put them up free open access online to join the growing pool of people doing the same

… putting some posters in my college about Open Access and Self-Archiving…

…offer my anthropology-projects.co.uk open access to anyone who wishes to use and explore these…

A great news is that Lorenz created a new overview over Open Access Anthropology Journals. You can leave a comment under his post if you want to add other OAAJ. I encourage you to bookmark this valuable page . It will save a lot of your time searching for OAA jouranls since the page is updated. Also, it will be a great idea if professors encourge their students to search OAAJ  and use them in their class papers. Professors are encouraged to use the Open Access Anthropology Journals to create materials for their classes. Students as well can encourage their professors to use the materials in OAA journals to prepare for the class readings.

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Happy Open Access Anthropology Day

Dear Anthropologists and others who do believe and support Open Access

I would like to thank all of you who participated in the First Open Access Anthropology Day. This is a great start and looking forward to more contribution in the our next Open Access Anthropology Events.

Many thanks for the team of Open Access Anthropology for giving me the opportunity to join their team and giving me the chance to write a post about the event at OAA

Thank you Lorenz for posting about the Open Access Anthropology Day

Thank you  Jay at  Savage Minds for spreading the news about Open Access Anthropology Day and thank you Kerim for your post at Savage Minds

Thank you Jim Spaulding for joining the event of Open Access Anthropology Day at  Blogger Unite and posting the event’s badge on your blog

Thank you AngelsTiV for joining the Open Access Anthropology Day at Blogger Unite

Thank you Loomnie for joining the Open Access Anthropology Day at Blogger Unite and posting a post associated with the event’s topic

Thank you Paul for joining the Open Access Anthropology Day at Blogger Unite

Thank you Sam for contributing and writing associated post about Open Access Anthropology Day

Thank you Aviator for helping in cerating the badge of the event

Thank you all for spreading the event’s news at twitter and facebook

Thank you for those who emailed to their students and colleagues, professors, and departments the poster Kerim and Alex created about Self Archiving

Happy Open Access Anthropology Day

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How to Participate in Open Access Anthropology Day

Here are some suggestions that you can do in the Open Access Anthropology Day.

1. You can join the event over blogger unite, which it would not consume a minute from your time.
2. Spread Open Anthropology Day via social networks, such as Facebook, Twitter, Blogs, etc
3. Write a post at that day about any related topic associated with Open Access Anthropology
4. Professors can discuss topics related to Open Access Anthropology with their students at that day.
5. Graduate and undergraduate students can discuss with their colleagues and professors the importance of Open Access Anthropology
6. Share with us any open access publication of yours. You can leave its URL in the comment’s section either here or in the comment’s section or over the page of the Open Anthropology Day at blogger unite under  the event’s comments .
7. Let us know your experience with Open Access Anthropology Journals either by posting it in your blog or leave it under the comment’s section here.
8. Copy and Paste into your text sidebar the HTML code of event’s badge, which is posted in the blog unite as I am doing in my sidebar.

Finally, I am thrilled because of the various emails that I received showing how anthropologists are very interested in Open Access Anthropology Day. Thank you all for your positive, posts, emails and comments.
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