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Field Work
India

Practices

vis-a-vis primatology?

Ideas
Pairbonding, Troopbonding, Abidance, Ycleptance, Foredoomance, and Adhibition, Inhibition, Explication - John Money's 'Concepts of Determinism' as universal, transhistorical and transcultural: http://scottmacleod.com/anthropology/determinism.htm (Money 1988: 114?)

Networks
Salazar, Noel B. (Chair). 2010. Anthropology and Mobility Network. European Association of Social Anthropologists - EASA. Online discussion at Open Anthropology Cooperative.

Khosronejad, Pedram (Chair). 2010. Networks: Anthropology of the Middle East and Central Eurasia (Russia, the Caucasus, Central Asia, China). (http://lists.easaonline.org/listinfo.cgi/amce-easaonline.org). European Association of Social Anthropologists - EASA.

Select Bibliographies
Appadurai, Arjun. 2011. Appadurai Articles 1981-1990. New York, NY: ArjunAppadurai.org: Writings & Reflections on Globalization, Food, Cinema, Design, & Cities.

Appadurai, Arjun. 2011. Appadurai Articles 1991-2000. New York, NY: ArjunAppadurai.org: Writings & Reflections on Globalization, Food, Cinema, Design, & Cities.

Appadurai, Arjun. 2011. http://www.arjunappadurai.org/appadurai-articles-2001-2010/. New York, NY: ArjunAppadurai.org: Writings & Reflections on Globalization, Food, Cinema, Design, & Cities.

Select Blogs
AAA Medical Anthropology Blog. 2010. Voices from Medical Anthropology. The American Anthropological Association.

Select Books
Boellstorff, Tom. 2008. Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.

Bohannan, Paul and Dirk van der Elst. 1998. Asking and Listening: Ethnography As Personal Adaptation. Long Grove, IL: Waveland Press, Inc.

Burawoy, Michael, Alice Burton, Ann Arnett Ferguson, Kathryn J. Fox. 2010. Ethnography Unbound: Power and Resistance in the Modern Metropolis. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.

Cerwonka, Allaine and Liisa Malkki. 2007. Improvising Theory: Process and Temporality in Ethnographic Fieldwork. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.

Clifford, James and George E. Marcus (eds.). 1986. Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.

Fischer, Michael M. J. 2004. Emergent Forms of Life and The Anthropological Voice. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

Hatch, Elvin. 1974. Theories of Man and Culture. New York, NY: Columbia University Press.

Select Films
Documentary Educational Resources (DER). 2011. Documentary Educational Resources (DER). (producing and distributing cross-cultural documentary film for educational use). Watertown, MA: Documentary Educational Resources.

Select Libraries
(See also editable World University and School's Library Resources page: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Library_Resources).

Select Programs, Applications, Software
Audacity. 2011. http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ (Audacity is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds. It is available for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems).

Recording Skype calls for Free w/ Audacity. 2010. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlPT7b-Hkuk (for interviews). YouTube.



Ethnocorder. 2010. EthnoCorder: Conduct rich media surveys using an iPhone. robotblimp.com/ethnocorder

Select References
Brenneis, Don. 2009. Anthropology in and of the academy: globalization, assessment and our field's future. Volume 17, Issue 3, pages 261–275, August 2009: Social Anthropology.

Graeber, David. 2011. [http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2011/08/what-is-debt-%E2%80%93-an-interview-with-economic-anthropologist-david-graeber.html What is Debt? – An Interview with Economic Anthropologist David Graeber]. August 26. nakedcapitalism.com.

Hall, Barbara. 2010. What is Ethnography. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania.

Hennessy, Kate. 2011. Repatriation, digital technology, and culture in a northern Athapaskan community. University of British Columbia.

Madrigal, Alexis. 2011. The Dark Side of the Placebo Effect: When Intense Belief Kills. September 14. The Atlantic.

Visual Anthropology. 2004. Visual Anthropology Readings in MIT OCW Documenting Culture. Cambridge, MA: MIT OCW>

Wade, Nicholas. 2010. [http://mobile.nytimes.com/2010/12/10/science/10anthropology.xml Anthropology a Science? Statement Deepens a Rif]. (Also: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/10/science/10anthropology.html) December 9. New York, NY: The New York Times.

Subjects or Subjectivities

Wesch, Michael. 2011. Subjects or Subjectivities?. November 3. mediatedcultures.net.

Select Societies, Associations, etc.
The Society for Anthropological Sciences (SAS). 2011. SASci Resources, News and Views.

Select Syllabi
Karpiak, Kevin. 2010. Anthropoliteia: the anthropology of policing - police and security studies from an anthropological perspective. Eastern Michigan University.

Society for Medical Anthropology Introductory Syllabi. 2011. Academic Resources: Introductory syllabi. Society for Medical Anthropology.

Urton, Gary. 2010. Ethnography and Archaeology. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University.

Select Textbooks
Delaney, Carol. 2004. Investigating Culture: An Experiential Introduction to Anthropology. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.

Kottak, Conrad. 2010. Cultural Anthropology: Appreciating Cultural Diversity. (14th ed.). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages.

Kottak, Conrad. 2005. Mirror for Humanity: A Concise Introduction to Cultural Anthropology (with PowerWeb) (6th ed.). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages.

Select Video and Audio
Hobart, Mark. 2010. Mark Hobart Inaugural Lecture - A Very Peculiar Practice. (The lecture illustrates with images and video two apparently quite different instances from the Indonesian archipelago - (The title is taken from Andrew Davies’s 1986 BBC comedy series about the workings of a university medical practice: http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/classic/verypeculiar/interview.shtml). London, UK: University of London.

Nader, Laura, with Calvin Morrill (interviewer). 2011. Laura Nader - Conversations in Law and Society. March 11. Berkeley, CA: UC BerkeleyLaw.

Posthuman

Theys, Frank. 2006. Transhumanist´s Wet Dreams - Technocalyps. (echnocalyps is an intriguing three-part documentary on the notion of transhumanism by Belgian visual artist and filmmaker Frank Theys. The latest findings in genetics, robotics, artificial intelligence, bionics and nanotechnology appear in the media every day, but with no analysis of their common aim: that of exceeding human limitations). Belgium: Votnik.

Select Websites
Anthropology of the Contemporary. 2010. http://anthropos-lab.net. Berkeley, CA: UC Berkeley.

Royal Anthropological Institute. 2010. http://www.therai.org.uk. England.

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