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Week 6 — Ethnography SOCI/ANTH 441 Material Culture Alexandre Enkerli October 8, 2008

SOCI/ANTH 441 Material Culture Week 6: Ethnography (Draft)

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Week 6 — EthnographySOCI/ANTH 441 Material CultureAlexandre EnkerliOctober 8, 2008

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Today

•Project•Presentations•Ethnography•Texts•(Geek culture?)

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Presentation

•Main presentation: 10 minutes.•Question period: 5 minutes.•Outline: maximum 1500 words.•Argument

▫Social and/or cultural significance•Selected details•Ideas and questions for final paper•Get feedback

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Sample Outline

•1 min – Argument•4 mins – Model•3 mins – Evidence•1 min – Conclusion or Summary•1 min – Floundering

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Current Schedule

•November 5▫Laurie, Tibeau, Yong, Michele

•November 12▫Diya, Tamara, Haley, Gregory, Zinique,

Ahmad, Michael, Elizabeth•November 19

▫Tessa•November 26

▫(Empty)

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Ethnographic Themes

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Ethnography

•Qualitative research•Participant-observation•Open-Ended Interviews•“Writing Culture”

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•Direct▫Actions/behaviours▫Discourse▫Objects

•Indirect▫Values▫Beliefs▫Ideals

“Observables”

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•Generic•Contrast methods•Cultural anthropology•Folkloristics•Ethnohistory•Journal of Material Culture 9(1)

Ethnographic Disciplines

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•Field Research•Field sites•"Ethnographic societies“•Exotic/familiar•Classification•Worldview

Ethnographic Classics

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Horst and Miller (2005)Holly and Cordy (2007)Douny (2007)

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Text Themes

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•Barth•Calame-Griaule•Castells•Dant•Dégh•Douglas•Godelier•Mauss•Paulme

Authors

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Tech World

•Forced adoption•Luddites•Losing jobs to robots•Marrying robots in 50 years?•Technological singularity

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Science Culture

•Geek culture•AI

• Hello world• Turing

•Biological machines•Nanotech•Science-Fiction

• Genuine People Personalities (HHGttG)

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Material Metaphors

•Jay David Bolter Turing’s Man•Defining technologies

▫“A defining technology defines or redefines man's role in relation to nature.” (1984: 13)

▫Pottery, clock, computer▫Peter Kemp, Unersetzliche

(Irreplaceable/Unsubstitutable). The Ethics of Technology