All Tomorrow's Cultures

I've been reading Orvar Löfgren's and Billy Ehn's Billy Ehn (Author) › Visit Amazon's Billy Ehn Page Find all the books, read about the author, and more. See search results for this author Are you an author? Learn about Author Central The Secret World of Doing Nothing (University of California, 2010) in preparation for the Spring semester.  It's the first time I've used a work of ethnology   (i.e., a comparison of different cultures) in the classroom, as opposed to the conventional, in-depth monographs that are the bread and butter of US anthropology. Lofgren and Ehn explore the cultural and social life of non-events, i.e., those parts of our life that we ordinarily "bracket" as irrelevant--the times we wait in line, or idly stare out a window.  There are interesting questions--especially with regards to methodology.  How do you do anthropology when no one thinks it's even worth talking about?   Not su...