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
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 […]
Purity and Danger by Mary Douglas
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 […]
My Life as a Night Elf Priest: An Anthropological Account of World of Warcraft
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 […]
From the Soil by Fei Xiaotong
Amazing work by sociologist Fei Xiaotong, who attempts to create a sociology of and from Chinese society, instead of slavishly analyzing Chinese society through a Western theoretical lens. I wonder if there is a Korean […]
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