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Week 6 — EthnographySOCI/ANTH 441 Material CultureAlexandre EnkerliOctober 8, 2008
Today
•Project•Presentations•Ethnography•Texts•(Geek culture?)
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
Sample Outline
•1 min – Argument•4 mins – Model•3 mins – Evidence•1 min – Conclusion or Summary•1 min – Floundering
Current Schedule
•November 5▫Laurie, Tibeau, Yong, Michele
•November 12▫Diya, Tamara, Haley, Gregory, Zinique,
Ahmad, Michael, Elizabeth•November 19
▫Tessa•November 26
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Ethnographic Themes
Ethnography
•Qualitative research•Participant-observation•Open-Ended Interviews•“Writing Culture”
•Direct▫Actions/behaviours▫Discourse▫Objects
•Indirect▫Values▫Beliefs▫Ideals
“Observables”
•Generic•Contrast methods•Cultural anthropology•Folkloristics•Ethnohistory•Journal of Material Culture 9(1)
Ethnographic Disciplines
•Field Research•Field sites•"Ethnographic societies“•Exotic/familiar•Classification•Worldview
Ethnographic Classics
Horst and Miller (2005)Holly and Cordy (2007)Douny (2007)
Text Themes
•Barth•Calame-Griaule•Castells•Dant•Dégh•Douglas•Godelier•Mauss•Paulme
Authors
Tech World
•Forced adoption•Luddites•Losing jobs to robots•Marrying robots in 50 years?•Technological singularity
Science Culture
•Geek culture•AI
• Hello world• Turing
•Biological machines•Nanotech•Science-Fiction
• Genuine People Personalities (HHGttG)
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