Mobility and body
Examining movement in and through the cityscape of Kolkata, the research deals with the sensory perceptions of mobility. The approach extends on recent contributions to urban anthropology and…
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Mobile Health in Context
Mobile Health in Context: How Information is Woven Into Our Lives @SusannahFox @PewResearch Susannah Fox from Pew Review Research put together an excellent presentation of the latest…
Performing the Sound Ethnography Project, Concord
I was recently invited to curate and perform the Sound Ethnography Project at Concord, an artist-run gallery and trans-disciplinary collective in Los Angeles, for the opening of their…
full text online publications coming soon
I have started putting up papers, book reviews and some book chapters on http://uq.academia.edu/GerhardHoffstaedter, but not everyone is on the one platform, so I’ll build a repository for…
The Bengal Studies panel
Panel proposal for the Bengal studies panel entered. We will see if it gets accepted! The Bengal studies panel has been a recurrent phenomenon at the EASAS /…
AARON SWARTZ. GUERILLA OPEN ACCESS MANIFESTO
By Aaron Swartz. July 2008. Reposted to honor his goals, to remember him, and to motivate change in the justice system that failed him. His suicide is…
Thesis Defended. Issue #2: Public Anthropology
A few weeks have gone by, flowers have bloomed, the snow is gone, and I’m far less agitated then I was immediately after the thesis defence experience. In…
Thesis defended. Issue #1:representing anthropology & being cynical.
How was it? Brutal [even if it was accepted with minor revisions!] !!! I’ll do my best to summarise the experience, and issues raised, over the next few…
Open Access – Books & Journals
[This post is a reply to a reader’s question, “What about books?”] Discussions related to Open Access often focus on journals, but as one thesis reader has asked…
Making anthropology accessible online (some conclusions)
Another thesis version has been submitted and this project is finally coming to a long drawn out close. In the end I’ve created a rather ugly beast. It’s…
Concentration and the Internet
A few tips to quickly share. I am easily distracted, and easily inspired. As a result I’ll be in the middle of a thesis paragraph when I’ll jump…