It seems as if anthropologist Robert Leonard has written a fascinating book according the Des Moines Register. It's called Yellow Cab:
When anthropologist Robert Leonard took a second job as a cab driver out of economic necessity, he found an "amazin… more »
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by lorenz on Feb 7, 2006 in Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, fieldwork / methods, Northern America, anthropology (general), journal articles / papers • 2 comments »
Judd Antin at TechnoTaste recently informed us about two new anthropology centers. One of them Laboratory for the Anthropology of the Contemporary seems to take knowledge sharing more seriously than other research centers. You can click on and read every… more »
by lorenz on Jan 18, 2006 in technology, design anthropology, applied anthropology, fieldwork / methods • 1 comment »
"If armchair anthropology was a product of colonialism, then design ethnography is a product of capitalism", writes Anne Galloway, inspired by Jan Chipchase's post on Tour Bus Ethnography:
Looking at my travel schedule for the next few months I'm left… more »
by lorenz on Jan 17, 2006 in Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, fieldwork / methods, internet
Cicilie Fagerlid provides a nice explanation on why she has started blogging while she's on fieldwork. Her working title for her research is Communities in the making: Identity and belonging in postcolonial Paris and London.
After I started I have no… more »
Cyber Ethnography both resembels and differs from traditional fieldwork. Livejournal user closedistances is beginning his /her dissertation research and designs the (imagined) ideal software tool for cyberanthropologists:
"I have found myself wishing… more »
Cicilie Fagerlid, anthropologist at the University on Oslo, has started blogging from her fieldwork in Paris. After the youth protests, she writes, her research question is "more justified than ever": What influences senses of belonging and community mak… more »
New York Times writes about the Ariaal society in northern Kenya and some bad behaving anthropologists. The Ariaal answer all their strange questions. But anthropologists don't give something back. A local chief, Stephen Lesseren, said he wished their wo… more »
Josué Tomasini Castro has started blogging impressions from his fieldwork among the Herero in Namibia. He is mainly interested in their culture and cosmology. Right now, he is establishing contacts and trying to learn the local language Otjiherero.… more »
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