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Thursday, October 15, 2009

Culture as Commodity: Investigations at an Ethnic Supermarket

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One of my earliest posts talked about how food was a uniting force in an interfaith marriage. I want to return to this discussion on food t...
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Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Someone's Always Watching: Network Implications of The Gross National Happiness Index

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Remember our discussion about networks ? Well, Facebook has been tracking status updates for the past two years. (For those of you concerned...
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Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Understanding Otherness: 10 Lessons We Can Learn From Tourists

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When anthropologists go into the field, they do so to study the "other"—i.e., the people and their culture that is different and d...
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Thursday, October 8, 2009

Hey, I Know That Tree! Extracting Social Understanding from Local Landscapes

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The New York Times recently ran a story about a 600-year-old oak in Douglaston, NY that had to be cut down as a result of rot. Six hundred ...
Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Status Symbols or Something More? Battling Big Bags on the Subway

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First there were those weird shoe-slipper things called Crocs. Then came skinny jeans (which I'm still hoping will go away). And now it ...
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