All Tomorrow's Cultures

Ashis Nandy.  Time Treks: the Uncertain Future of Old and New Despotisms.  NY: Seagull Books , 2008, 228 pp., US$ 34.95 (paperback). It is...

One strand of emergent anthropology that I've been following over the years has been the "anthropology of outer spaces,"  on...

I am deeply disappointed that I can't travel to Shanghai to see the national theater that is the World Expo. With both Koreas plotting...

Over the past couple of years, a rising trend: ethnographic explorations of gaming and RPG's. The anthropological ones have been inter...

Web 2.0 has stimulated ethnographic desire--the archiving of vast records of everyday life in the form of videos and podcasts. The Gamer...

There's a nice piece on Cory Doctorow by Robert Fletcher in the current issue of Science Fiction Studies (SFS).  It surprised me a lit...