MMOG Overview
There is a “good article on who played what last year”:http://www.massively.com/2008/12/29/gamerdna-and-massively-look-back-at-the-mmo-year-in-review/ on GamerDNA — useful. Note to self.
There is a “good article on who played what last year”:http://www.massively.com/2008/12/29/gamerdna-and-massively-look-back-at-the-mmo-year-in-review/ on GamerDNA — useful. Note to self.
Somehow I’ve become embroiled in Taiwan-as-Austronesia. Here is someone who has written about this: “Christian Alan Anderson”:http://omnivoyage.org/about_chris.htm Includes publications. Note to self, note to self, note to self.
For teaching: “Nations and Identities: Classic Readings”:http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/063122209X/ref=s9sips_c6_14_at3-rfc_p-3237_p_si3?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-1&pf_rd_r=1KC0P6YR9VF189W7XM3T&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=463383351&pf_rd_i=507846 “Becoming National: A Reader”:http://www.amazon.com/Becoming-National-Reader-Geoff-Eley/dp/0195096614/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1226457781&sr=1-1
“Graeme Kirkpatrick”:http://www.manchester.ac.uk/research/graeme.kirkpatrick/publications writes on games and computer use. Unfortunately the link to his piece at “Max Weber Studies”:http://www.maxweberstudies.org/issue-2-2.htm? 404s. Kiri has “another article on GTA”:http://digiplay.info/node/3214 Digiplay in fact has a “listing of articles on WoW”:http://digiplay.info/search/node/warcraft most of which I know about, but not all of them. Every couple of months I relink to “Henry Lowood’s [...]
On the selfhood in America angle, “Making the American Self: Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln”:http://www.amazon.com/Making-American-Self-Jonathan-Cultural/dp/0674165551/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1215245284&sr=8-1 And on the ‘early modern europe/history of knowledge about the colonies’ theme: “Wonder and Science: Imagining Worlds in Early Modern Europe”:http://books.google.com/books?id=BiXjSTNLWIEC&pg=PA335&vq=recapturing+anthropology&lr=&source=gbs_search_s&sig=ACfU3U1bKYUd2unE23NXNQQFlfgVGr3eVQ#PPP1,M1
“Melancholic Freedom: Agency and the Spirit of Politics”:http://www.amazon.com/Melancholic-Freedom-Agency-Spirit-Politics/dp/0195319826/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1214896943&sr=8-2 by “David Kyuman Kim”:http://www.conncoll.edu/academics/web_profiles/kim.html looks like a great book. That said, I do feel the blurb from Cornell West (his dissertation supervisor) is a bit excessive: David Kyuman Kim is the leading philosopher of religion and culture of his generation. The breadth of his synthetic imagination, the [...]
Being in France gives one lots of ideas for reading — after going to “Versailles”:http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0521599598/ref=sib_dp_pt#reader-link to realizing how “French Theory”:http://www.amazon.com/French-Theory-Foucault-Transformed-Intellectual/dp/0816647321/ref=si3_rdr_bb_product spread “in the United States”:http://www.amazon.com/French-Theory-America-S-Lotringer/dp/0415925371/ref=si3_rdr_bb_product. At the same time one of the recent scandals here about “students prostituting themselves”:http://www.amazon.fr/prostitution-%C3%A9tudiante-nouvelles-technologies-communication/dp/2353410294/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1214249456&sr=8-1 in order to pay their way through college which of course would never happen in the [...]
Oof. Major housecleaning and the blog is now running much more smoothly. In celebration here is a list of links I’ve been meaning to blog: “The Social Effects of Native Title”:http://epress.anu.edu.au/c27_citation.html another superb ANU Eprint. “Double Whammy of Disadvantage”:http://insidehighered.com/news/2008/06/16/first — some stats on the difficulty of staying in college if you are working and disadvantaged. [...]
“Almost Englishmen: Baghdadi Jews in British Burma”:http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&id=PVCzxtaSCXAC&dq=almost+englishmen+cernea&printsec=frontcover&source=web&ots=1au-tOAPMP&sig=9d9L8L2dlKoofvmyd1wLUpq4-Ig “New Mexico’s Crypto-Jews: Image and Memory”:http://www.amazon.com/New-Mexicos-Crypto-Jews-Image-Memory/dp/0826342892 Also one strange (possibly wonderfully so) archeology journal: “Time and Mind”:http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/berg/tmdj including “Biblical enthogens: a speculative hypothesis”:http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/berg/tmdj/2008/00000001/00000001/art00004: “I am a Jew who, though not observant, ?nds the Jewish textual heritage to be personally very meaningful. Following my experiences with Ayahuasca, I came [...]
Ok that came out wrong. What I meant to say is: damn, if you had to own only one book by Philip K. Dick, “this would be the one”:http://www.amazon.com/Philip-K-Dick-Stigmata-Eldritch/dp/1598530097/ref=sr_11_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1205824664&sr=11-1 — the price is right (US$24) and the selection is superb. I imagine the intro from Lethem would be pretty good as well. If you’ve never [...]
In case you were wondering where to find citations for the work of Michel Callon, there are pretty extensive lists “here”:http://www.csi.ensmp.fr/Perso/Callon/ and “here”:http://www.csi.ensmp.fr/index.php?page=PChercheurs&lang=&IdM=2
In my recent trip to Australia I was bowled over to find what a superb job the Australian government has done of digitizing its archives. Now you don’t need to trek out to the Australian War Memorial (which has a “blog”:http://blog.awm.gov.au/) — You can now view, digitized, the “ENTIRE ANGAU WAR DIARY”:http://www.awm.gov.au/diaries/ww2/folder.asp?folder=288 as well as [...]
Two journals that are new for me at least: “Networking Knowledge”:http://journalhosting.org/meccsa-pgn/index.php/netknow/issue/view/1/showToc and “Cultural Sociology”:http://cus.sagepub.com/
“If the claim here is that all social situations are working overtime to avoid becoming standoffs, then perhaps we do indeed need a kind of metaphorical Hostage Rescue Team to periodically rescue hostage of social life from ourselves and each other” — Robin Wagner-Pacifici in _Theorizing The Standoff: Contingency In Action_
“Selective Remembrance”:http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/241516.ctl — a new edited volume on archaeology and national pasts.
Two volumes on a topic I will probably not have time to deal with until retirement: ” The Shaolin Monastery: History, Religion, and the Chinese Martial Arts “:http://0-www.uhpress.hawaii.edu.pugwash.lib.warwick.ac.uk/cart/shopcore/?db_name=uhpress&page=shop/flypage&product_id=5309&category_id=b3e6237d1b1b3b8594488ed1c40d0dfb&PHPSESSID=815beb845cfdf2ead27aaeca2280fb46 By Meir Shahar and, on the lighter side “American Shaolin”:http://www.mattpolly.com/polly-books.htm By Matt Polly — much more a genre piece.
Here’s a “special issue on mining and corporate responsibility”:http://www.greenleaf-publishing.com/greenleaf/journaldetail.kmod?productid=2644&keycontentid=8 with many of the articles available in PDF.
Here’s an ‘article of the day’ link: “ools for the Disempowered? Indigenous Leverage Over Mining Companies”:http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a783628719?jumptype=alert&alerttype=new_issue_alert,email Abstract: Rather than passively accepting development, some Indigenous communities have forced their demands into corporate decision-making. Accordingly, recognising and responding to community expectations becomes a matter of prudent strategy and ‘enlightened self-interest’. This paper examines the case of Century [...]
Sounds like interesting work — here a potted literature review. “Making Scenes”:http://www.dukeupress.edu/books.php3?isbn=978-0-8223-4115-4 — the forthcoming book from Duke “The dissertation”:http://library.monash.edu.au/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?Search_Arg=baulch%2C+emma&SL=None&Search_Code=NALL&PID=Uc18Fq64z00WiEseC5ZRb8VTD&SEQ=20071025044256&CNT=20&HIST=1 at Monash Uni in Australia “Gesturing elsewhere: the identity politics of the Balinese death/thrash metal scene”:http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract;jsessionid=F12901585295FC895B531E67A2479BF0.tomcat1?fromPage=online&aid=163351 “Creating a scene: Balinese punk’s beginnings”:http://ics.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/5/2/153 “The McDonaldisation of Bali”:http://www.sustainability.murdoch.edu.au/casestudies/Case_Studies_Asia/bali_2/csmcdon.htm “‘Post Imperial’ Globalization and Balinese Alternative Music”:http://web.mit.edu/cms/Events/mit2/Abstracts/Baulchpaper.pdf “Alternative music [...]
ANU’s Artisinal mining research center has “online papers”:http://www.asmasiapacific.org/documentsview.aspx
“Charles Ellwood”:http://www2.asanet.org/governance/ellwood.html — the last of the pre-Parsonian sociological synthesizers “Stephen Turner’s vita”:http://isis.fastmail.usf.edu/fair/save/displayvita.asp?emplid=00000019055 — his article in the Levine festschrift on “The Maturity of Social Theory” is superb. “Rudolf Sohm”:http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0022-4189(198004)60%3A2%3C185%3ARSOC%3E2.0.CO%3B2-2 — the guy Weber got ‘charisma’ from “Joseph Bensman on bureaucracy”:http://www.springerlink.com/content/x8ggw3n16597n707/?p=a51d8e0ad49c4fc4807b17abdc94991c&pi=4 “Guy Oakes on Weber and the southwest German school”:http://www.springerlink.com/content/p54g804550574085/?p=a51d8e0ad49c4fc4807b17abdc94991c&pi=7 as well as “his response [...]
Additional works I noticed and will never have time to read: “War and Human Civilization”:http://www.amazon.com/War-Human-Civilization-Azar-Gat/dp/0199262136/ref=sr_1_4/105-4927962-4957223?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1192742547&sr=8-4: If you had to read one book on War, I guess this would be it. “The Body Multiple”:http://www.amazon.com/Body-Multiple-Ontology-Practice-Cultural/dp/0822329174/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/105-4927962-4957223?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1192743363&sr=8-1 by Annemarie Mol — medical anthro “The American Faculty”:http://www.amazon.com/American-Faculty-Restructuring-Academic-Careers/dp/0801882834/ref=sr_1_1/105-4927962-4957223?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1192743435&sr=8-1, the definitive book of my profession
The new issue of Ethnography has a “special section on middle managers in global firms”:http://eth.sagepub.com/content/vol8/issue3/ including an article by John Hassard. Oops. InterOil shares drop 25% as “Elk 2 comes up dry”:http://communities.canada.com/nationalpost/blogs/tradingdesk/archive/2007/10/03/interoil-shares-fall-on-suspension-of-elk-2-well.aspx Two books on the state end of the tripod: “State Formation and Political Legitimacy”:http://books.google.com/books?id=mgDBG5zu1xYC&pg=PA85&dq=ideology+and+the+formation+of+early+states&sig=Vj2weuV1Rp-ZhFPTfGgDquwqm8A#PPP1,M1 “Ideology and the formation of early states”:http://books.google.com/books?id=rtwxaNSsMbUC&pg=PP1&dq=ideology+and+the+formation+of+early+states&sig=jyyxLii9wt9lbA3TjgsRHHB_V0w#PPR5,M1 A fat [...]
“Armand Mattelart”:http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/M/mattelart_invention.html studies communication The “Media Ecology Association”:http://www.media-ecology.org/awards/2007awards.html filters content. “Influences on Max Weber’s Methodology’:http://asj.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/33/1/15
Check out this “phat new issue of Anthropological Forum”:http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/spissue/canf-si.asp! Gratz to all contributors — it looks like it will be fantastic.
I’ve been thinking a lot about the ethnography of the academy lately because of the upcoming ‘history of theory’ class that I’ll be teaching, so I recently stumbled across Becher and Trowler’s “Academic Tribes and Territories”:http://www.amazon.com/Academic-Tribes-Territories-Intellectual-Disciplines/dp/033520628X/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/105-4927962-4957223?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1190675133&sr=8-1 which I should read. Some day. *sigh*….
I trust “Robert Ulin”:http://www.wmich.edu/anthropology/ulin.html to write good books, and I’m sure “Vintages and Traditions”:http://www.amazon.com/VINTAGES-TRADITIONS-Smithsonian-Ethnographic-Inquiry/dp/156098628X/ref=sr_1_3/105-4927962-4957223?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1190419803&sr=1-3 is a good one. I figure if you are going to study ‘the invention of tradition’ grand crus would be the way to go. I’ll teach it someday…
Some random highlights of my scan of the Intarweb today: “S&P upgrades Papua New Guinea’s economic rating”:http://www.forbes.com/markets/feeds/afx/2007/09/14/afx4117637.html “Mr.Pip”:http://www.amazon.com/Mister-Pip-Lloyd-Jones/dp/0385341067/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/105-4927962-4957223?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1190079919&sr=8-1, a novel set in Bougainville, has been nominated for a Man-Booker prize. A new study on “college students use of IT”:http://insidehighered.com/news/2007/09/17/it — they pretty much all have access to computers now. “Indians, Missionaries, and Merchants”:http://www.ucpress.edu/books/sale/pages/10150.html — a [...]
Kaloo-kalay! The PNGIMR has, bless their hearts, “digitized back issues of the PNG Medical Journal”:http://www.pngimr.org.pg/medicaljournals.htm! A high-quality, hard-to-find journal is now available and open to all. Good job PNIMR!!
I love The Contemporary Pacific, and I was glad to see that they have open access’d “a great issue of indigenous studies”:http://www.uhpress.hawaii.edu/journals/cp/CP132.html. James Clifford, Geoff White, Ty Tengan, John Osorio, Teresia Teaiwa, etc. etc. Good stuff!