To decipher consumers' needs, corporate ethnographers review countless Youtube clips and read scads of blogs. "Viewing a film about the Yanomamo tribe in the Amazon rain forest in Anthropology 101 is like seeing a Youtube clip where a little kid in Peori… more »
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by lorenz on Nov 6, 2006 in technology, Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, fieldwork / methods, journal articles / papers, internet • 1 comment »
Erkan Saka, one of the most active blogging anthropologists, has published his paper Blogging as a Research Tool for Ethnographic Fieldwork that he presented at the annual conference of the Association of Internet Researchers in Brisbane six weeks ago.… more »
Visual anthropologist Kameel Ahmady has published several new articles at KurdishMedia.com. It looks like he is about to publish a whole book there. It started four weeks ago with part one of Media consumption, conformity and resistance: A visual ethnog… more »
by lorenz on Oct 31, 2006 in technology, Asia, globalisation, fieldwork / methods, migration, cyberanthropology, internet • 5 comments »
Anthropologist Jesse de Leon shares some of his results from his field work among Filipino bloggers and their expression of Filipino identity on blogs.
He found five major categories of Filipino bloggers: Cosmopolitans, the Philippine Elite, Im/migra… more »
by lorenz on Oct 16, 2006 in Us and Them, Europe, books, fieldwork / methods, poverty, youth • 7 comments »
"Our politicians are so obsessed by race that they have forgotten the importance of class", writes Daily Telegraph journalist Andrew Gimson and points to a new book by anthropologist Gillian Evans called Educational Failure and Working-Class White Childr… more »
by lorenz on Oct 9, 2006 in fieldwork / methods, music, youth, journal articles / papers, Visual Anthropology
In the field, anthropologists spent lots of time playing football or learning to dance: Could such enjoyable pastimes be considered a kind of work? Could play be used as a research technique? The new issue of Anthropology Matters is out. Its topic: From… more »
by lorenz on Oct 8, 2006 in Us and Them, fieldwork / methods, youth, journal articles / papers, Middle East, Visual Anthropology, websites • 1 comment »
The first part of the paper Media consumption, conformity and resistance: a visual ethnography of youth culture in Iranian Kurdistan by anthropologist Kameel Ahmady has been published on KurdishMedia. Ahmady wanted to examine the factors which shape a s… more »
by lorenz on Sep 11, 2006 in Us and Them, Europe, fieldwork / methods, migration, anthropology (general), journal articles / papers, interdisciplinary • 2 comments »
How to do research on migration? Lots of interesting papers in the recent issue of the multilingual and interdisciplinary Open Access journal Forum: Qualitative Social Research.
"Qualitative Migration Research in Contemporary Europe" is the topic of… more »
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