The Subject and Scope of This Inquiry
... denied that there were subcultures in Second Life, but many questioned if there was a Second Life culture. Claims that a virtual world like Second Life is composed of nothing but subcultures mistake notions of subculture in terms of identity and style (Hebdige 1979) for anthropological notions of cu ...
... denied that there were subcultures in Second Life, but many questioned if there was a Second Life culture. Claims that a virtual world like Second Life is composed of nothing but subcultures mistake notions of subculture in terms of identity and style (Hebdige 1979) for anthropological notions of cu ...
virtuality - Faculty Websites
... December 2009, had by April 2010 already become the highest-grossing work of artistic production in human history, having earned more than 21h billion dollars. Avatar)s plot, for which Cameron insisted on sole credit, recalls (a less generous verb would be "is derivative of') the storylines of films ...
... December 2009, had by April 2010 already become the highest-grossing work of artistic production in human history, having earned more than 21h billion dollars. Avatar)s plot, for which Cameron insisted on sole credit, recalls (a less generous verb would be "is derivative of') the storylines of films ...
How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology Beyond the Human
... nonhuman beings that make the forest their home. During the four years that I worked in Ávila villagers bought many things in Loreto. They bought things such as shotguns, ammunition, clothing, salt, many of the household items that would have been made by hand a couple of generations ago, and lots o ...
... nonhuman beings that make the forest their home. During the four years that I worked in Ávila villagers bought many things in Loreto. They bought things such as shotguns, ammunition, clothing, salt, many of the household items that would have been made by hand a couple of generations ago, and lots o ...
CyberAnthropology – Being human on the internet
... interaction between us human beings and the medium of the internet can be grasped theoretically and how human behaviours, needs and desires correlate with it practically. CyberAnthropology thus targets the questions of how the human ...
... interaction between us human beings and the medium of the internet can be grasped theoretically and how human behaviours, needs and desires correlate with it practically. CyberAnthropology thus targets the questions of how the human ...
Genetics, Identity, and the Anthropology of Essentialism
... They announce a long-term generational connection. But people always use knowledge of ancestry to illuminate social connections in the present. Knowledge of ancestry ratifies or even creates a social connection in the present. For example, geneticists in England have used Y-chromosome markers to dem ...
... They announce a long-term generational connection. But people always use knowledge of ancestry to illuminate social connections in the present. Knowledge of ancestry ratifies or even creates a social connection in the present. For example, geneticists in England have used Y-chromosome markers to dem ...
Globalization is notoriously difficult to define, but all commentators
... and fragmentation. But before such ambitious plans can be realized, anthropology has to provide ethnographies – like those of this collection – which detail the actual effects of globalization. This effort requires focusing on aspects that are most salient for those involved – and also most salient ...
... and fragmentation. But before such ambitious plans can be realized, anthropology has to provide ethnographies – like those of this collection – which detail the actual effects of globalization. This effort requires focusing on aspects that are most salient for those involved – and also most salient ...
THE TASADAY TWENTY FOUR YEARS AFTER: INSIGHTS ON
... that one way of looking at the Tasaday is through the discourse of ethnicity, particularly the processes of formation of ethnic identities, which becomes more relevant especially now that they are ancestral domain claimants, an identity that is also highly contested. Given this context, it is not th ...
... that one way of looking at the Tasaday is through the discourse of ethnicity, particularly the processes of formation of ethnic identities, which becomes more relevant especially now that they are ancestral domain claimants, an identity that is also highly contested. Given this context, it is not th ...
Rites of Passage: a Stepping Stone towards Tolerance in an
... Off course we aren’t pointing out an ultimate dependence of others. Within the scope of this paper it is impossible and unnecessary to open up to the specific consequences of interaction with the other, individually and existentially. What we are trying to point out is the fact that (i) the confront ...
... Off course we aren’t pointing out an ultimate dependence of others. Within the scope of this paper it is impossible and unnecessary to open up to the specific consequences of interaction with the other, individually and existentially. What we are trying to point out is the fact that (i) the confront ...
Digital Ethnography: Anthropology, Narrative, and New Media
... with great tact and compassion in making objects, texts, or media about people available to the world. Given how developed the literature in these fields are, the authors could have said more about how digital ethnography sheds some new light on these issues or poses some new challenge. The great va ...
... with great tact and compassion in making objects, texts, or media about people available to the world. Given how developed the literature in these fields are, the authors could have said more about how digital ethnography sheds some new light on these issues or poses some new challenge. The great va ...
part two project preparation
... to fully be in control of the creation of space and social environments in the most humanistic way. Through this understanding a respectful attitude to nature and the origins of human life will also be embraced. “Progressive” space and place is not about what you see, hear or have; but about the und ...
... to fully be in control of the creation of space and social environments in the most humanistic way. Through this understanding a respectful attitude to nature and the origins of human life will also be embraced. “Progressive” space and place is not about what you see, hear or have; but about the und ...