fsnielsen.com - about this website

This site is conceived, created, managed and maintained by Finn Sivert Nielsen. For comments, correspondence and complaints see my contact page.

The purpose of the site is to create a public space, into which I may put any idea or piece of information that I think might be of interest to someone else out there. Maybe it will have some kind of effect. The site is my soap-box, a collection of odds and ends, but also a source of useful ideas and systematically ordered information.
The site is experimental in several respects. It practices a kind of Open Source attitude to academic texts and materials. It messes around with form quite a lot, and attempts to make use of the various effects possible in html to create an interesting cyber-textual landscape. It also contains some perhaps unorthodox ideas.
The site is linked to two other web-sites I am engaged in:
anthrobase.com. A website I manage with Kari Helene Partapuoli. AnthroBase publishes non-copyrighted anthropological texts online for free. Its purpose is (a) to make a large, searchable volume of academic work freely available to anyone who wishes to download it (including less than well-funded students in the First, Second and Third World); and (b) to allow authors to spread their ideas and empirical findings to a global audience without going through the tedious and time-consuming process of translating, editing and true peer reviewing.
eceg pages. A cluster of online resources related to the anthropology of "East / Central Europe" (a region we define as including the entire area of the former Soviet Union and Mongolia), maintained by the East / Central Europe Research Group at the Institute of Anthropology in Copenhagen, Denmark. The site includes a closed, member area, and (for members) access to a mailing list. They also include the homepage of the Nordic and East / Central European Network of Qualitative Social Research (NECEN).