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Orange Milkweed - Herbs & Supplements - Drug Library - DrugDigest

used in historical times by Native Americans and early settlers to relieve pleurisy, lung ailment; not used today; other earlier medicinal uses

Tags: Orange Milkweed, pleurisy, history, anthropology, Native Americans, settlers, USA on 2008-09-21 -All Annotations (0) -About

in list: Biology

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KunstlerCast

A weekly podcast about the tragic comedy of suburban sprawl. Featuring James Howard Kunstler, author of 'The Geography of Nowhere.' Hosted by Duncan Crary.

Tags: kunstlercast, parody, culture, sociology, anthropology, history, suburbs, population, USA on 2008-09-13 -All Annotations (0) -About

in list: 21st Century America

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Digital Ethnography

@ Kansas State University wiki w/ Professor Wesch's blog, discussing various type of mediated culture

Tags: ethnography, web2.0, education, anthropology, blog, media, digital, 2.0 on 2008-08-10 and saved by86 people -All Annotations (2) -About

in list: blogfodder

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Harold Adams Innis: The Bias of Communications & Monopolies of Power

Tags: wec2008, wecfuture, innis, theory, anthropology, communication, media on 2008-08-09 and saved by3 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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Washington City Paper: Arts & Events: Michael Wesch

Tags: wesch, anthropology, youtube, presentation, web on 2008-06-24 and saved by2 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology — A Group Blog » Be a Public Intellectual, Win a Book Contract

Tags: anthropology, mindssavage, blog, writing, cyberculture on 2008-05-29 and saved by2 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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Link by Link - This Is Funny Only if You Know Unix - NYTimes.com

This is how education should be provided, in a manner so irresistible that your students will meet at a casually announced, SECRET real world coordinates; very funny, very cool
rather like Common Craft videos; black and white stark images

Tags: Randall Munroe, anthropology, unix, sudo, comics, online, integration, technology, education, nytimes on 2008-05-27 and saved by2 people -All Annotations (0) -About

in list: ethics

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YouTube - Learning to Change-Changing to Learn

Tags: changechanging, anthropology, education, video on 2008-05-26 and saved by2 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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Adobe - Design Center : Design anthropology: What can it add to your design practice?

today, online media design must think of all aspects of presentation, including artifacts; interactive must

Tags: anthropology, design, trends, artifacts, online, interactive on 2008-05-25 and saved by5 people -All Annotations (0) -About

in list: elementaryinteractive

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Design anthropology is an interdisciplinary field that seeks to understand the role of design artifacts and processes in defining what it means to be human (e.g., human nature).
In the course of conducting the card sort, I learned that men and women continued to classify domestic products based on stereotypical gendered spaces of male equals outside/garage, and female equals inside.
in spite of their lived gendered roles where the women where the heavy power-tool users and the men used blenders to make smoothies for the kids.
fact that the classification of consumer products lagged behind contemporary gender roles had strategic implication for how the client should and should not arrange the website site or retail spaces.
Anthropology is engaged with issues of the global flows of people and goods, human rights and social justice, global feminism, technology adoption, the social effects of the environmental degradation, and local sustainability practices—all issues that have become important to designers.
I also work with anthropologists to learn and understand the theories and processes of designing.
design anthropology's intentions are to create hybrid practices and practitioners.
focus of design anthropology is on connecting the process of design to the meanings and functions designed artifacts have for people.
often go beyond obvious attributes.
emphasis on values, or design, or experience, which are the domains of philosophy, academic design research, and psychology, respectively. Rather, design anthropology focuses on the interconnecting threads among all three, requiring hybrid practices.
social facts or emergent properties problem (ex. How are people influenced by social forces that emerge from the interaction of humans, but which transcend individuals?)
The result was a physical lock-and-key mechanism that, from across the room, could alert Chinese parents to when the PC was being used in an "open mode," which allowed for surfing the web of playing games, versus in an "education mode," which restricted their child to schoolwork.
How do designed communications, artifacts, and experiences spread, change, or grow over time?
requires longitudinal approaches that explore the relationships among artifacts, time, and place.
create image databases that allow researchers to re-mine categorized visual data of designed artifacts.
design anthropology is not always ethnographic, but sometimes is closer to archaeology, where the focus is completely on the material remains of the consumer products without asking about their meanings to owners.
"How is it that the things inside our collective heads or outside in the world drive us to behave in a particular way?"
The work of Jan Chipchase for Nokia, recently profiled in the New York Times, exemplifies some of the best work addressing the emergent properties problem in design anthropology.
Design anthropology does not place separate emphasis on values, or design, or experience, which are the domains of philosophy, academic design research, and psychology, respectively.

Meeting The Other (How to Learn about Humanity)

oh yes

Tags: humanity, anthropology, maybury-lewis on 2008-05-25 and saved by3 people -All Annotations (0) -About

in list: PLN: Formal & Informal

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Social Capital in Virtual Learning Communities and Distributed Communities of Practice

Social capital has recently emerged as an important interdisciplinary research area. It is frequently used as a framework for understanding various social issues in temporal communities, neighbourhoods and groups. In particular, researchers in the social sciences and the humanities have used social capital to understand trust, shared understanding, reciprocal relationships, social network structures, common norms and cooperation, and the roles these entities play in various aspects of temporal communities. Despite proliferation of research in this area, little work has been done to extend this effort to technology-driven learning communities (also known as virtual learning communities). This paper surveys key interdisciplinary research areas in social capital. It also explores how the notions of social capital and trust can be extended to virtual communities, including virtual learning communities and distributed communities of practice. Research issues surrounding social capital and trust as they relate to technology-driven learning communities are identified.

Tags: bourdieu, capital, socialcapital, anthropology on 2008-05-25 and saved by6 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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K-State cultural anthropogist finalist for inspire integrity awards

Tags: anthropology, wesch, ksu, award on 2008-05-25 and saved by3 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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grasp0633.pdf (application/pdf Object)

This is an insightful paper which describes a "subparadigm of cognitive anthropology" that is used to study the Asmat: their shields and symbolism; it seems to me to have interesting information our cognitive theory and expression; note: the Asmat were/are headhunters with what seems to a cyclical nature to their rituals.

Tags: Wichita State University, A. Ricke, cognitive theories, grasp0633.pdf, Anthropology, symmetry, Asmat, structuralism on 2008-05-23 -All Annotations (0) -About