Ethnography

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• Sympathetic ethnography of surrogate mothers

  
  Boing Boing — Authority: 882
  Frequent awesome BB suggester Avi Solomon sez, "Yes, I know Im totally biased, but I honestly think that my wife Dr. Elly Temans forthcoming ethnography Birthing a Mother will truly blow your mind if youre concerned with how technology forms and reboots core human experiences like Motherhood. Surrogacy is a hot ...
  19 hours ago

• Food Ethnography on a Budget: Eastern Woodlands III: Sassamanesh Relish

  
  The Baltimore Snacker — Authority: 463
  I have done little cooking since Thanksgiving (and since my cars engine, as I have just found out, is officially "shot"). But back in my kitchen I decided to throw together a quick and tangy cranberry relish that caught my eye in Dale Carsons New Native American Cooking . The cranberry is native to New England, ...
  2 days ago

• Why it pays to think about the whole system, not just your local function

  
  dancingmango — Authority: 409
  Ability to do bulk price mark-downs? Nice to have. Today we are looking at a large UK supermarket stock control system.  At the end of the day the staff mark down prices on the short-life items (sandwiches etc).  They have a hand held scanner with a belt printer.  Scan item - print label - stick label on item. ...
  3 days ago

• Virtual Video Ethnography: Towards a New Field of Internet Cultural Studies.

  
  Watching YouTube — Authority: 432
  Strangelove, Michael. Virtual Video Ethnography: Towards a New Field of Internet Cultural Studies . Intern 3, 2007. Abstract: With the recent development of virtual worlds, human action within cyberspace is rapidly expanding into new media forms such as online interactive gaming. As Internet users created ...
  6 days ago

• 0.178: The Social Production of Science and Anthropology as Knowledge for Domination

  
  OPEN ANTHROPOLOGY — Authority: 110
  The intellectual heritage of European expansion that we inherit as anthropologists – certainly not without modification and criticism – is again the subject in this series. If Immanuel Wallerstein explained which agendas became dominant with the institutionalization of the social sciences, with some notes on why ...
  1 week ago

• Food Ethnography on a Budget: Eastern Woodlands II: Wild Rice and Maple Syrup

  
  The Baltimore Snacker — Authority: 463
  My next sample of Eastern Woodlands food - in this case, something clearly from the northern reaches of the Northeastern Woodlands - was a dessert. In her New Native American Cooking , Dale Carson does not have a recipe for "Wild Rice and Maple Syrup," per se. Why should she? Its ridiculously simple to do. All ...
  1 week ago

• After Consciousness Reframed X, Conference Biofeedback and Ubiquitous Anthropology

  
  [ AOS ] Art is Open Source — Authority: 114
  This year’s Consciousness Reframed conference has just finished, and we just returned home for a little while. A sunny Munich hosted the tenth edition of the Planetary Collegium ’s annual conference themed “Experiencing Design, Behaving Media”. We presented two FakePress projects: Conference Biofeedback ...
  1 week ago

• The 2010 UIE Virtual Seminar Schedule

  
  UIE Brain Sparks — Authority: 112
  We’re really excited about the online seminars we have planned for 2010. There’s lots under construction , but we’ve already got plenty of exciting talks you’re going to want on your team’s calendar. I wanted to give you a sneak preview of what we have in store. On January 7 Peter Morville will discuss ...
  1 week ago

• Food Ethnography on a Budget: Eastern Woodlands I: Venison Stew

  
  The Baltimore Snacker — Authority: 463
  The next stop on my Food Ethnography quest takes me right to our own backyard, and the foods and cuisines that have existed on this continent for thousands of years. That would be the many food traditions of the native peoples of North America, which of course influenced what the first Europeans and Africans in what ...
  1 week ago

• Showcase: Kinship, Close Up

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 901
  For the portrait photographer Martin Schoeller, Hollywood and Washington are closer to northern Tanzania than they would appear to be.
  1 week ago

• Office Gossip: Can You Believe How Mean It Can Be?

  
  Through Your Body: — Authority: 129
  By JOHN TIERNEY Could adults gossiping in the office be more devious than the teenagers in “Gossip Girl” ? If you have a hard time believing this, then you must have skipped the latest issue of the Journal of Contemporary Ethnography . Perhaps you saw “ethnography” and assumed it would just be quaint ...
  1 week ago

• Word to Dell Hymes

  
  Ape — Authority: 93
  The world of anthropology lost a true giant this week in Dell Hymes. I paid my respects to him silently this week as I considered the value of what was simply said – and not witnessed as ‘authentic’ ethnography, according to a client – during a lone research interview that blossomed into an insanely successful ...
  1 week ago

• Various articles on the power of the mobile phone in emerging markets

  
  Putting people first — Authority: 135
  A number of articles illustrate the power of the mobile phone in emerging markets: What next after the Mobile revolution in Kenya? by John Karanja MPESA will be on its own a major driver of the economic expansion of the Kenyan economy and best of all it will take a bottom up approach because it will empower the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Atany, a village in Hungary: Museum of Ethnography

  
  Budapest Blog — Authority: 124
  If you are looking for information about life in a small village in Hungary, this exhibition might be interesting for you. In the time after the Second World War things changed quickly and the people working with agriculture had to change both equipment and technology. In this exhibition about Atany you will see ...
  2 weeks ago

• DIASPORA: Armenian Festival in Canada to Highlight Komitas (hetq.am)

  
  GEORGIA & SOUTH CAUCASUS — Authority: 139
  The Third Moncton Armenian Festival will kick off in the Canadian city November 26 to 29, and this year the focus will be on Komitas, Armenia’s legendary composer, ethnographer, poet and specialist in folk dance and the study of music.Four days will be filled with activities and discoveries of the world of Komitas: ...
  2 weeks ago

• An anthropological intro to YouTube

  
  We Are Social — Authority: 503
  Dr. Michael Wesch , Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State University, a pioneer in digital ethnography and the man who brought us Web 2.0 … The Machine is Us/ing Us and Information R/evolution presents an anthropological introduction to YouTube to the Library of Congress: I know ...
  2 weeks ago

• Food Ethnography on a Budget: Cambodia III - Amok Trey

  
  The Baltimore Snacker — Authority: 463
  My mini "excursion" to Cambodia is almost done, and I couldnt finish it without trying my hand at what (so Ive read) is to Cambodia as the hamburger is to the US: the coconut milk, fish sauce and galangal-coated steamed fish dish known as amok trey . Known in Laos as mók pa and in Thai as haw mòk plaa (if I ...
  2 weeks ago

• ChittahChattah Quickies

  
  All This ChittahChattah — Authority: 126
  Storylistening for consumer insight – There are many ways of collecting stories but here are three that may be new to you: * Anecdote circles * Naive interviewers * Mass narrative capture Collecting stories is not about finding the one perfect story that describes a brand or a consumer experience. Rather it is ...
  2 weeks ago

• Social media and political activism

  
  media/anthropology — Authority: 464
  Was thinking earlier this week about how one may go about studying social media from a practice theory  perspective. For example, it would be interesting to do ethnographic reseach among social/political activists and their social media practices. Take Jeff Juris’ (2008) Networking Futures  monograph, on ...
  2 weeks ago

• Nokia has designs on India

  
  Putting people first — Authority: 135
  Nokia’s senior design specialists are touring India to discover how Indians use cellphones. Leslie D’Monte reports for New Delhi’s Business Standard. Jhanvi Madan (not her real name), who lives in Mumbai , has been talking on her cellphone. Unknown to her, a stranger on the other side of the road is observing ...
  3 weeks ago

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