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11 Jun 08

Bonnie'sBlog: farewell to constructivism

  • analysis of relations between human agency and modern technology and a smart rap on the methodological knuckles for many of us
  • situated studies of local activity misapprehend contemporary technologies such as nuclear power, the automobile, and large information systems
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06 Apr 08

This Blog Sits at the: the Law & Order of Ethnography

  • anthropology is not really interested in the veracity of any
    historical particular but in the architecture of meaning in the context
    of which all particulars must take place.

This Blog Sits at the: A note on ethnography

  • This is after all precisely what is missing from the bargain basement
    ethnographers, the one's who practice brutish empiricism.  These
    ethnographers merely report what the
    respondent says, because they have no concepts with which to see the cultural significance of what the respondent says.  They are mirrors, nothing more. 
04 Sep 07

Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology — A Group Blog » The methodological sharpening of cultural anthropology

  • I sometimes wonder if cultural anthropology’s failure to sharpen itself isn’t the result of a genuine (if often unarticulated) sense that these sorts of specialized approaches simply remove anthropologists from the nitty-gritty particularism that is at the heart of what we do.
  • I think that we perhaps like early symbolic interactionists in this regard—we are too suspicious that methodological specialization will lead us away from, rather than closer to, the stuff of social life.

Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology — A Group Blog » Improvisatory Sharpening: more on field vs armchair progress

  • the “methodological sharpening” of fieldwork concerns not so much shared technologies or shared concepts, but shared pedagogy—both that of the mentors and that of the students. Shared pedagogy is what allows students to figure out what they are doing before and during fieldwork, what questions seem to provoke interest and response, and which texts remain “open” for working through.
28 Aug 07

Acting with Technology: Activity Theory and Interaction Design: Chapter 1

  • We believe that activity theory fits a niche opened by the emerging sensibility that studying interaction and activity is essential to the development of interaction design.
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