http://hdl.handle.net/10524/1513 Tue, 21 May 2013 19:57:39 GMT 2013-05-21T19:57:39Z http://hdl.handle.net/10524/23589 Tue, 21 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10524/23589 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z Boellstorff, Tom http://hdl.handle.net/10524/1786 Preprint of article published in Rethinking Marxism, Volume 21, Issue 3 (July 2009), pages 355 - 365. URL of official version: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all?content=10.1080/08935690902955062 Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10524/1786 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z Friedman, P. Kerim http://hdl.handle.net/10524/1690 When considering modalities of citizenship making, we must examine the criteria by which nations and states regulate processes of selection and the relations of power politics used to normalize and adjust subjects rendering them loyal, governable citizens. In our times, the State’s capacity to define cultural identity within very explicit and oftentimes implicit socio-economic contexts and to construct and manipulate social processes enables it to increasingly determine the lives and activities of humans as subjects. Sun, 20 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10524/1690 2009-12-20T00:00:00Z Turner, Neil http://hdl.handle.net/10524/1626 The proposed paper based on fieldwork among Armenians in Lebanon, Armenia and Montreal examines from a feminist and socialist perspective how Armenianness with its varieties constructs public and private gendered, racialized, class divided spaces. In the symbolic construction of Armenianness attention has been given to memory, the 1915 un-recognized genocide of the Armenian people and to the moral imperative put in particular on Armenian women as bearers of culture. The everyday practices of Armenians are examined as they tend to demarcate, construct spatial and symbolic boundaries. In particular the paper looks into the concepts of de-territorialization, ethnoscapes, transnationality, globalization in the Armenian context. Refereed Thu, 01 Jul 1999 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10524/1626 1999-07-01T00:00:00Z Aprahamian, Sima http://hdl.handle.net/10524/1625 ARC Working Paper, No. 12 ; discussion of this working paper at http://anthropos-lab.net/bpc/2008/05/responsibility-mckeon-and-ricoeur/ Thu, 01 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10524/1625 2008-05-01T00:00:00Z Kelty, Christopher http://hdl.handle.net/10524/1624 This is a book about Free Software, also known as Open Source Software, and is meant for anyone who wants to understand the cultural significance of Free Software. Two Bits explains how Free Software works and how it emerged in tandem with the Internet as both a technical and a social form. Understanding Free Software in detail is the best way to understand many contentious and confusing changes related to the Internet, to “commons,” to software, and to networks. Whether you think first of e-mail, Napster, Wikipedia, MySpace, or Flickr; whether you think of the proliferation of databases, identity thieves, and privacy concerns; whether you think of traditional knowledge, patents on genes, the death of scholarly publishing, or compulsory licensing of AIDS medicine; whether you think of MoveOn.org or net neutrality or YouTube—the issues raised by these phenomena can be better understood by looking carefully at the emergence of Free Software. Refereed; Contents: Part I, THE INTERNET: 1. Geeks and Recursive Publics; 2. Protestant Reformers, Polymaths, Transhumanists; Part II, FREE SOFTWARE: 3. The Movement; 4. Sharing Source Code; 5. Conceiving Open Systems; 6. Writing Copyright Licenses; 7. Coordinating Collaborations; Part III, MODULATIONS: 8. "If We Succeed, We Will Disappear"; 9. Reuse, Modification, and the Nonexistence of Norms; Conclusion: The Cultural Consequences of Free Software Tue, 01 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10524/1624 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Kelty, Christopher http://hdl.handle.net/10524/1621 Refereed Sun, 01 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10524/1621 2006-10-01T00:00:00Z Kleinman, Arthur; Benson, Peter http://hdl.handle.net/10524/1620 Migrant workers in the United States have extremely poor health. This paper aims to identify ways in which the social context of migrant farm workers affects their health and health care. This qualitative study employs participant observation and interviews on farms and in clinics throughout 15 months of migration with a group of indigenous Triqui Mexicans in the western US and Mexico. Study participants include more than 130 farm workers and 30 clinicians. Data are analyzed utilizing grounded theory, accompanied by theories of structural violence, symbolic violence, and the clinical gaze. The study reveals that farm working and housing conditions are organized according to ethnicity and citizenship. This hierarchy determines health disparities, with undocumented indigenous Mexicans having the worst health. Yet, each group is understood to deserve its place in the hierarchy, migrant farm workers often being blamed for their own sicknesses. Structural racism and anti-immigrant practices determine the poor working conditions, living conditions, and health of migrant workers. Subtle racism serves to reduce awareness of this social context for all involved, including clinicians. The paper concludes with strategies toward improving migrant health in four areas: health disparities research, clinical interactions with migrant laborers, medical education, and policy making. Refereed Sun, 01 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10524/1620 2006-10-01T00:00:00Z Holmes, Seth M. http://hdl.handle.net/10524/1619 Thesis (B.A.)--University of Chicago, 2007.; Anthropology; Tue, 01 May 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10524/1619 2007-05-01T00:00:00Z Kucharski, Adam S. http://hdl.handle.net/10524/1618 Thesis (M.A.)--Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, 2007.; Institut für Ethnologie und Afrikanistik, Fakultät 12 für Kulturwissenschaften Mon, 01 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10524/1618 2007-10-01T00:00:00Z Klenk, Fabian http://hdl.handle.net/10524/1614 Non-refereed Sun, 01 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10524/1614 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Wilm, Johannes http://hdl.handle.net/10524/1613 Approximately 11 million people worldwide regularly participate in persistent, graphically–realized, online virtual worlds (including EverQuest, Ultima Online, Second Life, and Lineage). Originally built on computer game platforms, these worlds are in many respects the most viable online arenas for broad–based social action; their participants pursue lasting social relations as well as globally consequential economic activities that elide the boundary between offline and online experience. Amidst this startling growth it is the producers of these worlds who are confronting in practical terms unprecedented challenges of governing what are in many cases fundamentally open–ended, yet architected, environments. How are they doing this, and in particular how are they developing their own position as those theoretically (if not effectively) in ultimate control? This article, based on ethnographic research at Linden Lab, the makers of Second Life, considers this question with respect to competing and continually changing ideas of Second Life’s content, a particularly unruly yet central concept in this virtual world’s ongoing governance. Refereed Sun, 01 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10524/1613 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Malaby, Thomas M. http://hdl.handle.net/10524/1612 Recent scholarship has made it clear that people within synthetic worlds (otherwise known as virtual worlds or MMORPGs) produce commodities and currencies with market value, while other work has established the increasing importance of social networks within and between worlds, as well as across the boundary which appears to separate them from the rest of users’ lives. To tie these two threads together, and account for the use of these environments for the development of expertise and credentials, I propose adding a third form, cultural capital, to the mix, and outline a model for understanding capital in all its manifestations: material, social, and cultural. This model will make it possible to explore how actors within synthetic worlds transform, or parlay, these forms from one into the other, and furthermore how these forms are used across all the domains wherein users act, blurring any qualitative distinction between virtual and real worlds. Refereed Sun, 01 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10524/1612 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Malaby, Thomas M. http://hdl.handle.net/10524/1610 This study utilizes qualitative interview and data analysis techniques to investigate how the social context and mode of transmission of religious concepts influence the process by which those concepts are accepted by individuals and intrapsychically transformed into beliefs. Five members of Christian church congregations in the Williamsport, Pennsylvania area were interviewed concerning their personal histories of religious belief. Findings largely support several existing theoretical models of the social and cognitive determinants of religious belief acquisition, but also suggest that it may be appropriate to accord greater salience to some particular aspects of those theories. Possible implications of this theoretical framework for cross-cultural interactions are also addressed. other; Senior field research paper submitted as part of undergraduate coursework in Sociology and Anthropology at Lycoming College. Sat, 01 Dec 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10524/1610 2007-12-01T00:00:00Z Johnson, Brian http://hdl.handle.net/10524/1605 Refereed Thu, 01 Jan 2004 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10524/1605 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Kelty, Christopher http://hdl.handle.net/10524/1604 Refereed Thu, 01 Jan 2004 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10524/1604 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Chan, Anita http://hdl.handle.net/10524/1603 Games have intruded into popular, academic, and policymaker awareness to an unprecedented level, and this creates new opportunities for advancing our understanding of the relationship of games to society. I therefore offer here a new approach to games that stresses them as characterized by process. Games, I argue, are domains of contrived contingency, capable of generating emergent practices and interpretations, and are intimately connected with everyday life to a degree heretofore poorly understood. This approach is both consistent with a range of existing social theory and avoids many of the limitations that have characterized much games scholarship to date, in particular its tendency toward unsustainable formalism and exceptionalism. Rather than seeing gaming as a subset of play, and therefore as an activity that is inherently separable, safe, and pleasurable, I offer here a rethinking of games as social artifacts in their own right that are always in the process of becoming. This view both better accords with the experience of games by participants cross-culturally and bears the weight of the new questions being asked about games and about society. Refereed Mon, 01 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10524/1603 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z Malaby, Thomas M. http://hdl.handle.net/10524/1599 An ethnobotanical study in the Cumbres de Monterrey National Park (CMNP), Nuevo Leon, Mexico was conducted. In spite of the large area (1,773.7 km2), heterogeneous physiography, contrasting plant communities and high species diversity of the CMNP, very little was previously known about its useful plants. Based on 95 interviews with inhabitants of the region who were 35 years or older, we recorded ethnobotanical data of 240 species (comprising 170 genera and 69 botanical families), and 146 different uses. Most of the cited uses (98) were found to be medicinal ones. Refereed Mon, 01 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10524/1599 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z Estrada, Eduardo; Villarreal, José A; Cantú, César; Cabral, Ismael; Scott, Laura; Yen, Carmen http://hdl.handle.net/10524/1595 Non-refereed Sun, 01 Jan 1922 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10524/1595 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z Westermarck, Edward http://hdl.handle.net/10524/1594 Non-refereed Mon, 01 Jan 1912 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10524/1594 1912-01-01T00:00:00Z Lowie, Robert H.