The Guardian What happens when you let a sharp-eyed anthropologist roam the corridors and meeting rooms of the British Broadcasting Corporation for several years? You get this, a fascinating patchwork of interviews, testimonials, diary entries and ana… more »

Anne Lau Revil's homepage Software design is usually undertaken by IT specialists, who have a technical training. Few have a sociocultural background. In this paper I will show several examples of software design as sociocultural adjustments, and more… more »

Forum: Qualitative Social Research (FQS) The aim of this article is to discuss the lessons learned from conducting semi-structured interviews online in an ethnographic study that took place in Saudi Arabia during the period 2001-2002. The purpose o… more »

Karen Lee, University of Texas at Austin "Netnography," coined from 'ethnography on the Internet,' is an emerging qualitative research methodology adapting ethnographic research techniques to the study of cultures and communities constructed through t… more »

Two new links, found via Science Blog/ Open Directory Project: The Okavango Delta Peoples of Botswana: Short overview, many links. By John Bock, professor in the Department of Anthropology at California State University, Fullerton: "The Okavango Delt… more »

scanews.com What is Chinese cultural heritage? How do we pass it on to the next generation, particularly as it changes in the context of U.S. society? These are issues shared by many adoptive Chinese families and Chinese American families. Since 20… more »

Daniel M.T. Fessler, Asst. Prof. of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles, writes to me and tells about his research method. Together with his students, he runs anthropology studies and experiments on the Web. He writes: "Folks gener… more »

OneWorld Southeast Europe The overall goal of this project is to provide information, data and instruments to NGOs and policy makers about the persistence of high-quality folk know-hows on local plant foods and herbal medicines, which could be used in… more »