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A team of researchers from several fields at the University of Michigan is launching a study of why people laugh at cartoons. Come on, guys: Because they're funny! That's not good enough for the psychologists, linguists, anthropologists… more »
Categories: "anthropology (general)"
by lorenz on Oct 4, 2004 in corporate & business anthropology, applied anthropology, books, fieldwork / methods
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 »
by lorenz on Oct 4, 2004 in technology, corporate & business anthropology, design anthropology, applied anthropology, fieldwork / methods, websites
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 »
by lorenz on Oct 4, 2004 in culture traditions, fieldwork / methods, journal articles / papers, Middle East, cyberanthropology, internet
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 »
BBC
A new sign language created over the last 30 years by deaf children in Nicaragua has given experts a unique insight into how languages evolve. The language follows many basic rules common to all tongues, even though the children were not taught th… more »
Washington Post
A hundred social scientists and geneticists gathered this week in Alexandria to sort out the meaning of race, and didn't, quite. When Leith Mullings, an anthropologist from the City University of New York, sardonically said that "only… more »
by lorenz on Sep 15, 2004 in technology, corporate & business anthropology, applied anthropology, fieldwork / methods, cyberanthropology, internet
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 »
Anthropolis (Hungary)
An interview, about the current perspective of Central-European and Polish anthropology, with Dr. Marcin Brocki (PhD adjunct professor - Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology - University of Wroclaw, Poland).
- We… more »
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