Coming of Age in Second Life Boellstorff, Tom
2015, 2008., 20150825, 2005, 2008-12-31, 2015-08-25, 20080101
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Millions of people around the world today spend portions of their lives in online virtual worlds. Second Life is one of the largest of these 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. Coming of Age in Second Life is the first book of anthropology to examine this thriving alternate universe. Tom Boellstorff conducted more than two years of fieldwork in Second Life, living among and observing its residents in exactly the same way anthropologists traditionally have done to learn about cultures and social groups in the so-called real world. He conducted his research as the avatar "Tom Bukowski," and applied the rigorous methods of anthropology to study many facets of this new frontier of human life, including issues of gender, race, sex, money, conflict and antisocial behavior, the construction of place and time, and the interplay of self and group.
The history of anthropology has been written from multiple viewpoints, often from perspectives of gender, nationality, theory, or politics.Before Boasdelves deeper into issues concerning ...anthropology's academic origins to present a groundbreaking study that reveals how ethnology and ethnography originated during the eighteenth rather than the nineteenth century, developing parallel to anthropology, or the "natural history of man."
Han F. Vermeulen explores primary and secondary sources from Russia, Germany, Austria, the United States, the Netherlands, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, France, and Great Britain in tracing how "ethnography" was begun as field research by German-speaking historians and naturalists in Siberia (Russia) during the 1730s and 1740s, was generalized as "ethnology" by scholars in Göttingen (Germany) and Vienna (Austria) during the 1770s and 1780s, and was subsequently adopted by researchers in other countries.
Before Boasargues that anthropology and ethnology were separate sciences during the Age of Reason, studying racial and ethnic diversity, respectively. Ethnography and ethnology focused not on "other" cultures but on all peoples of all eras. Following G. W. Leibniz, researchers in these fields categorized peoples primarily according to their languages. Franz Boas professionalized the holistic study of anthropology from the 1880s into the twentieth century.
Einführung in die rassenkundliche Abteilung Walter Scheidt / Hamburgisches Museum für Völkerkunde und Vorgeschichte / Hamburgisches Museum für Völkerkunde und Vorgeschichte
2020
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Ethnographien der Sinne Lydia Maria Arantes, Elisa Rieger / Lydia Maria Arantes, Elisa Rieger
2014, 201412, Letnik:
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Die Rolle sinnlicher Wahrnehmung fand in der Alltagskulturforschung bisher wenig Beachtung. Dieser Band greift deshalb die Forderung nach einer Einbindung der Sinne in die ethnographische ...Forschungspraxis auf. Die versammelten Beiträge befragen sinnliche Wahrnehmung kritisch - sowohl hinsichtlich der Körperlichkeit von Alltagserfahrungen und resultierender Epistemologien als auch in Hinblick auf Konsequenzen ethnographischer Forschungsprozesse. Das Ausloten der Möglichkeiten und Grenzen sinnlicher Wahrnehmung erlaubt theoretisch-methodische Neukonzeptionen sowie ein konkretes Nachspüren von Feldern, die z.B. Räume, Medien oder Subjektkonstitutionen streifen.Mit Beiträgen u.a. von Jochen Bonz, Simone Egger und Sarah Pink.
This open access book explores the disciplinary, disciplined, and recent interdisciplinary sites and productions of ethnomusicology and queerness, arguing that both academic realms are founded upon a ...destructive masculinity—indissolubly linked to coloniality and epistemic hegemony—and marked by a monologic, ethnocentric silencing of embodied, same-sex desire. Ethnomusicology’s fetishization of masculinizing fieldwork; queerness’s functioning as Anglophone master category; and both domains’ devaluation of sensuality and experience, concomitant with an adherence to provincial, Western conceptions of knowledge production, are revealed as precluding the possibilities for equitable, dialogic pluriversality. Enlisting the sonic as theoretical intervention, the disciplined/disciplining ethno and queer are reimagined in relation to negative emotions and intractable affect, ultimately vanquished, and replaced by explorations of sound, sex/uality, and experiential somaticity within a protean, postdisciplinary space of material/epistemic equity. This uncompromising, long-overdue critique will be of interest to researchers and students from numerous theoretical backgrounds, including music, sound, gender, queer, and postcolonial/decolonial studies.
Wie verlaufen die Argumentationsmuster in Völkerkundemuseen und den Wissenschaften der Völkerkunde sowie der Anthropologie zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts? Das Buch versucht, dieser Frage an zwei ...Fallbeispielen nachzugehen, indem der theoretische Diskurs der Sammlungs-, Ausstellungs-, Lehr- und Forschungspraxis gegenübergestellt wird. Der identifizierte Wandel von einem »Kultur«- hin zu einem »Rasse«-Begriff sowie der Perspektivenwechsel von Objekten hin zu Körpern wird dabei in einem breiten kolonialen Kontext interpretiert - über ein tradiertes Epochenverständnis hinaus. Dadurch werden Kontinuitäten und Brüche präziser erkennbar als bislang üblich.
Sombras de antepasados olvidados Buccellato, Marcos
Runa (Buenos Aires, Argentina),
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El siguiente trabajo nace del diálogo con la obra de Hans Vermeulen en relación a los orígenes de la antropología. Para este autor, el origen de la etnología, como una de las raíces de la ...antropología sociocultural, es producto de una disciplina que había alcanzado su madurez a finales del siglo XVIII, emergiendo a partir de los trabajos de campo realizados en Rusia y el norte de Asia, principalmente por eruditos de la universidad de Göttingen. La tesis propuesta por Vermeulen apunta a una revisión histórica sobre los orígenes de la antropología oponiéndose a la visión tradicional y más difundida, que hace nacer la disciplina hacia finales del siglo XIX con la conformación del paradigma evolucionista. El presente artículo hace un recorrido por este trabajo y presenta algunas notas críticas sobre los argumentos y conclusiones defendidas por el autor. Resalta también el valor de este tipo de reflexiones para tener una mayor comprensión de la disciplina antropológica como producto histórico y el reconocimiento de tradiciones disciplinares periféricas que muchas veces no son reconocidas en las tradiciones canónicas.
This multi-volume publication with an overall of 42 contributions investigates the position of ,,Völkerkunde" (socio-cultural anthropology) from Vienna during the Nazi era, in exile as well as inside ...the „Third Reich". Central attention is given to institutional and biographical networks and the history of ideas. The relevant academic spectrum not only includes "Völkerkunde"/ethnology (socio-cultural anthropology), but also comprises important neighboring fields ranging from physical anthropology to archaeological prehistory, folklore studies ("Volkskunde") as weil as to African and Japanese studies.
Diese mehrbändige Publikation mit insgesamt 42 Beiträgen widmet sich der Stellung der Völkerkunde aus Wien während der NS-Zeit, im Exil und im „Dritten Reich". Im Fokus stehen institutionelle und biographische Netzwerke sowie ideengeschichtliche Aspekte. Das Spektrum umfasst dabei nicht nur die zentrale Völkerkunde/ Ethnologie, sondern auch wichtige Nachbarfächer von physischer Anthropologie über Ur-und Frühgeschichte bis hin zu Volkskunde, Afrikanistik und Japanologie.
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