Alexander Knorr, Xirdalium Oftentimes there is a confusion about what anthropological 'fieldwork' actually is. One aim of my project is to transpose anthropology's rich and powerful methodology to the terra nova online: thick participation plus its we… more »

Here are three more articles from the Anthropology News March 2005 by the American Anthropological Association: Vishvajit Pandya: "When Land Became Water". Tsunami and the Ongees of Little Andaman Island I had a chance to visit the Ongees in the last… more »

Anthropology Matters in one of the few anthropological online journals - and an excellent one! Finally, their issue 2 / 2004 (!) is put online. In this issue, they bring together eleven papers that were first presented and discussed at the Future Fields… more »

Anthropologist Cicilie Fagerlid (University of Oslo) has recently published her thesis about young British Asians on the web. In her introduction, she writes: "Society cannot remain a society if people feel excluded on basis of what characterises them… more »

The Lantern, Ohio State University In a presentation titled "The Politics of Representation," ethnographer Marie "Keta" Miranda addressed the general misrepresentation of gang members, but focused largely on women. She discussed the knowledge she gain… more »

Anthropologist Eric Gable, allAfrica.com It is hard to decide what to call this remarkable book, the first of two volumes. It is for the most part a collection of stories told by a West African bar girl,"Hawa," to anthropologist and musicologist John… more »

Greater Milwaukee Today Over a three-year period of time from 2000-2003, Urban Anthropology Inc., a Milwaukee nonprofit organization, deployed a handful of anthropologists, anthropology interns and former homeless individuals to document 109 stories o… more »

Dina Mehta, author of the blog Conversations with Dina, points to a ethnographic study on bloggers. She quotes: "The bloggers interviewed say their preference for blogging over a web page because it is more dynamic “the rhythm of frequent, usually bri… more »