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model, called HAU-NET, relied on income from key supporters to meet publication costs—mainly anthropology departments and libraries, totalling about 40 by 2017. It was reported in 2017 that this had not gone well in several respects with some core funding diminishing. The shift to a large university non-profit publisher and a sustainable hybrid model which could offer both free access after each issue release and gold open access to each issue's key articles was the outcome of the HAU Advisory Board deliberations. In a turnaround, commitment to OA publishing then took second place to the intellectual project: "Even if the current funding could allow open access to the journal and the book series for another one or two years, the difficulties of ensuring long-term sustainability encountered by other open journals and projects ... do not offer much hope at this historical conjuncture."
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movement". HAU critics felt that the incident reflected systemic power imbalances within anthropology as an academic discipline. The internal structuring of HAU was also scrutinised as the large amount of power Da Col had was seen as one of the reasons these situations could occur. Da Col resigned as
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In 2018, allegations of workplace abuse were raised by David Graeber and in two anonymous open letters written by former HAU staff members. These accusations were made against the then editor-in-chief Giovanni Da Col. Other accusations included physical and emotional abuse, bullying, harassment and
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occasion the opportunity to build theory from indigenous knowledge practices. The journal addresses topics such as indigenous ontologies and systems of knowledge, forms of human engagement and relationality, cosmology and myth, magic, witchcraft and sorcery, truth and falsehood, indigenous theories
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is a Māori religious concept. Arguing that this Maori concept has become anthropologist's common parlance and the journal had stated the original inspiration came from Marcel Mauss's usage of the term, the board of trustees responded with a statement apologizing for not running it by the Mahi Tahi
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The journal was founded with a commitment to open dissemination of anthropology "...HAU is committed to becoming an Open Access alternative to commercial publishing in anthropology by taking advantage of the lower costs of production that internet distribution allows". The open access publishing
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HAU was co-founded in 2011 by Giovanni da Col and Justin Shaffner, who at the time were graduate students in Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge. As of January 2019, the journal is ranked seventh in
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of kinship and relatedness with humans and non-humans, hierarchy, materiality, perception, environment and space, time and temporality, personhood and subjectivity, and alternative metaphysics of morality.
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2011–2017, Subscription from 2018 with one-month free access after publication, and five articles/issue remaining permanently open access. All HAU Journal content published from 2011–2017 is open access.
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collective for a consultation. They also clarified that a Māori scholar, Paul Tapsell, was invited to join the journal's first editorial board and endorsed the project.
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financial misconduct. Known by the hashtag #hautalk the discussion spread to the wider anthropology community, and was described as “anthropology’s
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King, Tanya J.; Boarder Giles, David; Meher, Mythily; Gould, Hannah (December 2020). "Anthropology and #MeToo: Reimagining fieldwork".
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According to the journal's first foreword or manifesto, "The Return of Ethnographic Theory", written by Giovanni da Col together with
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Da Col, Giovanni; Dowdy, Sean M.; Gros, Stéphane (2013). "Father Christmas rejuvenated".
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Da Col, Giovanni; Graeber, David (2011). "Foreword: The return of ethnographic theory".
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Da Col, Giovanni (2017). "Two or three things I know about Ethnographic Theory".
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Editorial Collective: Luiz Costa, Mariane Ferme, Raminder Kaur, and Andrew Kipnis
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HAU editor-in-chief in 2019 and stayed on as an editor of HAU Books until 2020.
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scholars published a statement criticizing the journal's choice of name, since
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Collins, Samuel Gerald (2019). "Social Media". In Callan, Hilary (ed.).
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Da Col, Giovanni (1 December 2017). "Free gifts that must be invented".
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Da Col, Giovanni; Graeber, David (1 September 2011). "Foreword".
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and Society for Ethnographic Theory (United Kingdom)
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