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The Chrysanthemum and the Sword by Ruth Benedict

BOOK BOOK & FILMS 06/07/2020 by Kevin Jae

Nice, pleasant read, informative and simple. An example of anthropology that is dépassé, I doubt that anyone today would write a book about Japanese culture as a monolithic entity.   Benedict could not conduct fieldwork in […]

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My Life as a Night Elf Priest: An Anthropological Account of World of Warcraft

BOOK BOOK & FILMS 05/03/2020 by Kevin Jae

Bonnie Nardi uses Dewey’s activity theory (never heard of this before the ethnography) to analyze World of Warcraft. Dewey’s theory allows us to conceive of online games (if I am to understand correctly) as an […]

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Purity and Danger by Mary Douglas

BOOK BOOK & FILMS 03/22/2020 by Maari Sugawara（Managing Editor）

This book by celebrated anthropologist Mary Douglas tackles one of the questions that I have a personal interest in: contagion and purity and danger. Lots of fertile ideas for understanding Korean ethno-nationalism, although its ideas […]

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My Life as a Night Elf Priest: An Anthropological Account of World of Warcraft

BOOK BOOK & FILMS 11/14/2019 by Kevin Jae

Another ethnography of online spaces; read this a couple of months ago.   Bonnie Nardi uses Dewey’s activity theory (never heard of this before the ethnography) to analyze World of Warcraft. Dewey’s theory allows us to […]

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