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This class deals with ways people have developed for telling others what they think they know, what their research or investigation has revealed to them about society, social life, and social problems. It thus has to do with problems of what has been call

representation narrative sociology socialscience anthropology syllabus
march 2007 by rybesh

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Media Anthropology Network (Medianthro)

The Network aims to foster the exchange of information and coordinate research and teaching projects on the anthropological study of media. It also hopes to contribute to the theoretical development of this area of anthropological research.

anthropology media academia
february 2006 by rybesh

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Media Anthropology Network - Bibliographies

An annotated bibliography on media anthropology.

media anthropology bibliography books reference research
january 2006 by rybesh

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Social Studies of Technology, Energy and Technical Systems

This seminar aims to introduce and explore core literature and issues within Science and Technology Studies (STS), drawing primarily upon contributions from sociology, anthropology, political science, history and cultural studies.

sts ANT social anthropology politicalscience history culturalstudies science technology berkeley courses spring2006
december 2005 by rybesh

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PORTABLE EFFECTS

where are you GOING today? what did you LEAVE behind? what things did you BRING? how do you WEAR these things while youíre in motion? where do you PARK them when you stop? do you think you may have FORGOTTEN the most important thing?

culture design technology ethnography anthropology mobile
december 2005 by rybesh

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Anne Galloway: Users, activities, practices etc.

I see only functional, structural, behavioural and developmental models. People... are reduced to something programmable. And I think this has something to do with why computing technologies ultimately lack the pervasiveness of other technologies.

theory activitytheory anthropology psychology ubicomp design HCI
august 2005 by rybesh

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Mizuko Ito

A cultural anthropologist who studies new media use, particularly among young people in Japan and the US.

anthropology blog culture ethnography japan mobile people research sociology technology academia
july 2005 by rybesh

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Robert D. Putnam: Bowling Alone

Putnam has hit the nail right on the head...

books 2001 urn:asin:0743203046 wishlist 1945 20thcentury anthropology community currentevents history socialchange socialclasses socialscience sociology usa
june 2005 by rybesh

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Donald Richie, Roy Garner: Image Factory

This book attacks a fairly narrow question, "Why does a society with such a reputation for conformity chase such outlandish fads?" Donald Richie, a long timer writer on Japanese culture, tackles this in a series of essays on pachinko, the culture of...

books 2004 urn:asin:1861891539 wishlist anthropology asia fashiondesign history japan socialscience sociology culture
june 2005 by rybesh

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Paco Underhill: Why We Buy

This book is a great bunch of facts and insights into the nature of selling (which may be translated into buying)...

books 2000 urn:asin:0684849143 wishlist anthropology business marketing shopping
june 2005 by rybesh

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Gregory Bateson: Steps to an Ecology of Mind

Gregory Bateson made substantial contributions to many fields of science...

books 2000 urn:asin:0226039056 wishlist anthropology evolution history knowledge psychiatry psychology socialscience sociology theory
june 2005 by rybesh

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Henry Jenkins, Jane Shattuc, Tara Mcpherson: Hop on Pop

Why more people don't know his name is beyond me...

books 2003 urn:asin:0822327376 wishlist 1970 anthropology civilization essays socialscience sociology usa culture art
june 2005 by rybesh

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Nigel Thrift: Spatial Formations
books 1996 urn:asin:0803985460 wishlist anthropology humangeography philosophy socialscience socialsciences sociology spatialbehavior
june 2005 by rybesh

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Stephen Kern: The Culture of Time and Space, 1880-1918
books 2003 urn:asin:067402169X wishlist 19thcentury 20thcentury anthropology civilization europe history modern spaceandtime
june 2005 by rybesh

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Donald E Brown: Human Universals

This is a comprehensive survey of the anthropological study of human universals, human nature, culture vs...

books 1991 urn:asin:007008209X wishlist anthropology archaeology culture humanbehavior industrial research socialscience sociobiology sociology
june 2005 by rybesh

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Jim Thomas: Doing Critical Ethnography
books 1992 urn:asin:080393923X wishlist anthropology ethnology socialscience sociology methods
june 2005 by rybesh

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Christian Heath, John Seely Brown, Etienne Wenger, Roy Pea: Communities of Practice

This book is written primarily for academics...

books 1999 urn:asin:0521663636 wishlist anthropology personality psychology
june 2005 by rybesh

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Manuel Castells: The Power of Identity

This is the second volume of 'Information Age'...

books 2003 urn:asin:1405107138 wishlist anthropology science socialaspects socialmovements sociology technology
june 2005 by rybesh

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Manuel Castells: End of Millennium

Many of the observations Prof...

books 2000 urn:asin:0631221395 wishlist 1970 1990 anthropology economichistory internet socialhistory socialscience sociology
june 2005 by rybesh

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H. L. (Bud) Goodall: Writing the New Ethnography

Bud Goodall's book is probably the most important work that I have read the entire time I have been in school...

books 2000 urn:asin:0742503399 wishlist anthropology archaeology authorship ethnography ethnology fieldwork mediastudies performingarts research socialscience sociology academia writing
june 2005 by rybesh

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Lucien Taylor: Visualizing Theory
books 1994 urn:asin:0415908434 wishlist anthropology archaeology c1990toc2000 ethnography filmtheory literarytheory sociology
june 2005 by rybesh

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Chizuko Ueno, Wolfgang Seifert, Michio Muramatsu, Roger Goodman, Yoshio Sugimoto, Harumi Befu: An Introduction to Japanese Society

While no book is able to entirely encapsulate a culture, Yoshio Sugimoto's "An Introduction to Japanese Society" manages to showcase the ethnic and economical diversity alongside pop culture and "Friendly Authoritarianism," something that one can see...

books 2002 urn:asin:0521529255 wishlist anthropology asia culturalstudies history japan socialscience socialstudies sociology
june 2005 by rybesh

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Theodore C. Bestor: Tsukiji

A great subject, tackled by a writer who has a nice sense of language -- but please, somebody take a red pen to this book! This isn't a dissertation anymore (I assume it once was -- it certainly reads like one)...

books 2004 urn:asin:0520220242 wishlist anthropology asia business commerce history industries japan markets seafoodindustry socialscience sociology tokyo
june 2005 by rybesh

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Theodore C. Bestor: Neighborhood Tokyo

Neighborhood Tokyo is one of only a handful of books in English that offers a realistic and insightful portrait of the lives of ordinary people in this vibrant global metropolis...

books 1989 urn:asin:0804717974 wishlist anthropology community japan neighborhood tokyo
june 2005 by rybesh

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Marjolijn De Jager, Marc Auge, James E. Young: Oblivion
books 2004 urn:asin:0816635676 wishlist anthropology archaeology mind socialscience sociology
june 2005 by rybesh

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Johan Huizinga: Homo Ludens

I'm sure the translation is as poor as everyone says, but for God's sake, this is one of only three or four absolutely essential twentieth-century books on the history of games and gaming...

books 1971 urn:asin:0807046817 wishlist anthropology civilization philosophy play sociology
june 2005 by rybesh

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Donald Richie, Leza Lowitz: The Japan Journals

Donald Richie is someone who always floated on the periphery of my awareness...

books 2004 urn:asin:1880656914 wishlist 1924 1945 anthropology asia biography civilization donald history japan literary personalmemoirs richie
june 2005 by rybesh

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Lawrence Lessig: Free Culture

Discussing law is always a challenge to an author, especially if he/she wishes to make it simple, interesting, and critical...

books 2005 urn:asin:0143034650 wishlist anthropology archaeology creativity internet socialscience sociology
june 2005 by rybesh

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Pierre Bourdieu, Richard Nice: Distinction

In 1998 Pierre Bourdieu's *Distinction* was voted by members of the International Sociological Association to be the sixth most important sociological treatise of the 20th century: but if Bourdieu's "theodicy" for the cultural market of the hexagonal...