Rob Borofsky started a Public Anthropology Journal Archive. A very good idea indeed.

I forward you one of his letters calling for support to his project. Click here to read the letter

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Indyweek reports about a new Inuit movie: "In a brilliant telling of an Inuit legend, a warrior battles an evil spirit that threatens to upend his community...

The thrilling success of The Fast Runner strikes a blow for the promises of digital technology. A decade ago, a minimally funded group of Inuit filmmakers could not have made such a gorgeous film, but now, the cheapness and reasonable quality of digital video make it possible for remote, voiceless people to generate their own movies. In fact, those who lack resources may well make the most urgent films with this new technology. The Fast Runner is 20 times better than Steven Soderbergh's current excursion into guerrilla filmmaking, the profligately pointless Full Frontal.

It's much too early to tell if Kunuk and his crew have fired the first shot of a coming invasion of aboriginal films made by small collectives with a few bucks, a video camera and a vision. It may well turn out that The Fast Runner is a one-shot masterpiece, but the operative word is masterpiece."

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