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Cultures of Music Piracy: An Ethnographic Comparison of the US and Japan

Published on July 22, 2004 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, cyberanthropology, fieldwork / methods, music, technology

Marc Erickson, channels.lockergnome.com

Ian Condry:

“What is this culture of piracy and what is at stake in trying to change it? In this essay, I take an ethnographic look at music file sharing, and compare the situation in the US with Japan. My findings are based on fieldwork in Tokyo, and surveys and discussions with US college students. By considering the ways social dynamics and cultural orientations guide uses of digital media technology, I argue that a legal and political focus on ‘piracy’ ignores crucial aspects of file sharing, and is misleading in the assumptions it makes for policy.”

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Marc Erickson, channels.lockergnome.com

Ian Condry: "What is this culture of piracy and what is at stake in trying to change it? In this essay, I take an ethnographic look at music file sharing, and compare the situation in the US with…

German expatriate employees, globalisation and social mapping

Published on July 9, 2004 by lorenz Posted in anthropology (general), anthropology in the news, Europe, fieldwork / methods, globalisation, journal articles / papers

Fiona Moore, Anthropology Matters 1 (2004)

Transnational business people are seldom studied by anthropologists. Here, I examine the role that two ‘global cities’ — London and Frankfurt — play in the lives of a group of employees from a German transnational financial corporation. In researching transnational groups, anthropologists need to think less in terms of ‘global’ versus ‘local’, and more in terms of complex relationships between groups of varying degrees and kinds of globalisation.
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Fiona Moore, Anthropology Matters 1 (2004)

An anthropologist finds insight into Japan’s bad-loan crisis

Published on June 13, 2004 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, books, corporate & business anthropology, fieldwork / methods

The Japan Post

“Unless you understand how money is moving about the economy, it is impossible to have any meaningful analysis of a society or its culture; and unless you look at cultural issues, it is difficult to ever understand how a financial system works when it is outside your own culture”, says anthropologist Gillian Tett >>continue (link updated)

The Japan Post

"Unless you understand how money is moving about the economy, it is impossible to have any meaningful analysis of a society or its culture; and unless you look at cultural issues, it is difficult to ever understand how…