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Comment on Summer reading… by Yannick

Yannick — Thu, 23 May 2013 10:02:20 +0000

No paper involved, but some links here and there that make a book of themselves :
http://yannickprimel.wordpress.com/2012/07/06/devoirs-vacances-prospective/
(Blog post in french, but all links lead to english content).
Cheers !

Comment on Summer reading… by Rex

Rex — Wed, 22 May 2013 21:06:27 +0000

I’m working on Unequal Childhoods by Anette Lareau and Forcellino’s biography of Raphael. Then its on to Theatrical Liberalism by Most and some Jonathan Israel for my upcoming trip to the Netherlands.

Comment on Summer reading… by Celina Callahan-Kapoor

Celina Callahan-Kapoor — Wed, 22 May 2013 15:50:07 +0000

Well, to add a non-academic book to this list: _Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity_ (Andrew Soloman) which I am hoping will be an interesting addition to work on normalcy and bodies. Also about to re-read some Stoler, namely _Haunted by Empire_ and _Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power_.

Comment on Practical Training for the Digitally Il/literate Anthropologist by ledwyer

ledwyer — Tue, 21 May 2013 15:30:51 +0000

Actually my undergraduates doing senior independent ethnorgraphic research have been using digital media as part of their ethnographic praxis for a number of years.
Such research topics have include: conflict resolution on Reddit; _Harry Potter_ in Globalization including fan fiction; the place of electronic media in undergraduate volunteer associations; the “personhood” vs reification of vocaloids. In fact, I advise all of my undergraduate ethnographers to be aware of the place of electronic praxis in their work.
My Anthropology 100 students watch Amber Case’s TED presentations on the nature of cyborg anthropology and conduct a class research exercise related to the place of digital praxis in their own lives in place of a rather useless library research paper. They learn to keep a journal and devise basic coding, then share their research in a series of panels. They are also required to read some respected online news reports about the nature of digital media in developing nations in order to attempt a holistic perspective that requires they use the vocabulary and cultural relativism that was part of the “basics” of the course.
Several recent graduates hope to go on in this area. Any advice for grad schools that will facilitate and mentor such a research interest?

Comment on Summer reading… by Brendan Galipeau

Brendan Galipeau — Tue, 21 May 2013 08:48:16 +0000

Since I’m still in comps mode as a PhD student reading hasn’t entirely left the academic mode even with the semester ending, but I’m finally just wrapping up Passage to Manhood by Liu Shao-Hua; a great medical ethnography of Southwest China’s Mosuo, which I plan to teach for my advanced online Chinese Culture Ethnography course in the fall. Of course this has also been sitting on my shelf for almost two years since I frantically bought it up. Next up is Geographical Diversions by Tina Harris, a very promising new piece in economic anthro on the global trade of Tibetan goods and commodities.

Comment on Summer reading… by mesmith9

mesmith9 — Tue, 21 May 2013 04:52:52 +0000

“Complex Adaptive Systems: An Introduction to Computational Models of Social Life” by John Miller and Scott Page; “Debt” by David Graeber; “The Price of Inequality: How Today’s Divided society Endangers our Future” by Joseph Stiglitz.

Comment on Summer reading… by Links: From The Golden Bough to Digital Public Anthropology | Anthropology Report

Tue, 21 May 2013 02:07:25 +0000

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Tue, 21 May 2013 01:44:02 +0000

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Comment on Summer reading… by Brendan Sullivan

Brendan Sullivan — Mon, 20 May 2013 16:51:04 +0000

I just finished “The Meaning of Whitemen: Race and Modernity in the Orokaiva Cultural World” a profound book by Ira Bashkow about whom Rex has posted here before, “Neoliberal Genetics” by Susan McKinnon, and “What Kinship is..and Is Not”- 2013 book by Marshall Sahlins. I am about to read “Escape Routes: Control and Subversion in the 21st century by Dimitris Papadopoulous”, Language Shift and Cultural Reproduction” by Don Kulick, and “After Kinship” by Janet Carsten.

Comment on Practical Training for the Digitally Il/literate Anthropologist by Angela VandenBroek

Angela VandenBroek — Mon, 20 May 2013 15:33:58 +0000

There are also a lot of really nice tools that can be used effectively and creatively in the field (e.g. Evernote, smartpens) that can go far beyond a digital audio or video recorder.