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Coming Of Age In Second Life : An Anthropologist Explores The Virtually Human

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Tom BoellstorffPublication Details
BookPrinceton University Press2008Description
Millions of people around the world today spend portions of their lives in online virtual worlds. The residents of Second Life create communities, buy property and build homes, go to concerts, meet in bars, attend weddings and religious services, buy and sell virtual goods and services, find friendship, fall in love–the possibilities are endless, and all encountered through a computer screen. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
The Native Mind And The Cultural Construction Of Nature

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Scott Atran and Douglas MedinPublication Details
BookMIT Press2008Links
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These studies, which involve a series of targeted comparisons among cultural groups living in the same environment and engaged in the same activities, reveal critical universal aspects of mind as well as equally critical cultural differences. Atran and Medin find that, despite a base of universal processes, the cultural differences in understandings of nature are associated with significant differences in environmental decision making as well as intergroup conflict and stereotyping stemming from these differences. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) BF311 .A755 2008 AVAILABLE
Everyday Life In Central Asia : Past And Present

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edited by Jeff Sahadeo and Russell ZancaPublication Details
BookIndiana University Press2007Links
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A vibrant and dynamic world of life in urban neighborhoods and small villages, at weddings and celebrations, at classroom tables, and around dinner tables emerges from this introduction to a geopolitically strategic and culturally fascinating region. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) DS328.2 .E94 2007 AVAILABLE
Doing Ethnographies

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Mike Crang and Ian CookPublication Details
BookSAGE2007Description
“Crang and Cook provide a well-written practical guide to doing ethnographic research in the broadest sense of the term. It focuses on those methods - participant observation, interviewing, focus groups, and video/photographic work - that allow us to understand the lived, everyday world ‘out there.’ In five chapters it presents a systematic overview of: first principles, preparing for fieldwork, constructing ethnographic information, analyzing field materials, and writing. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) GN345 .C658 2007 AVAILABLE
Light At The Edge Of The World : A Journey Through The Realm Of Vanishing Cultures

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text and photographs by Wade DavisPublication Details
BookNational Geographic Society2001Links
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In Light at the Edge of the World, Davis?best known for The Serpent and the Rainbow?presents an intimate survey of the ethnosphere in 80 striking photographs taken over the course of his wide exploration. In eloquent accompanying text, Davis takes readers deep into worlds few Westerners will ever experience, worlds that are fading away even as he writes. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) GN378 .D38 2001 DUE 11-14-09
Improvising Theory : Process And Temporality In Ethnographic Fieldwork

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Allaine Cerwonka and Liisa H. MalkkiPublication Details
BookUniversity of Chicago Press2007Links
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Scholars have long recognized that ethnographic method is bound up with the construction of theory in ways that are difficult to teach. In a unique account of, and critical reflection on, the process of theoretical improvisation in ethnographic research, they demonstrate how both objects of analysis, and our ways of knowing and explaining them, are created and discovered in the give and take of real life, in all its unpredictability and immediacy. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) GN346 .C45 2007 AVAILABLE
Practicing Ethnography In A Globalizing World : An Anthropological Odyssey

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June C. NashPublication Details
BookAltaMira Press2007Links
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In her new book, distinguished anthropologist June Nash tackles the critical question of how people of diverse cultures confront the common problems that arise with global integration. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) GN345 .N38 2007 AVAILABLE
Social Life In Northwest Alaska : The Structure Of Iñupiaq Eskimo Nations

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Ernest S. Burch, JrPublication Details
BookUniversity of Alaska Press2006Description
This landmark volume will stand for decades as one of the most comprehensive studies of a hunter-gatherer population ever written. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) E99.E7 B8888 2006 DUE 11-22-09
American Voices : Culture And Community

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Dolores laGuardia, Hans P. GuthPublication Details
Book6th edMcGraw-Hill2006Links
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This thematic reader focuses on contemporary American culture and offers over 120 provocative readings and images representing a broad range of genres and diverse authorial voices. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PE1127.H5 L25 2006 AVAILABLE
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