Need Cash: Guangzhou, China
Walking along the street in Guangzhou yesterday evening I passed a scene of some folks at an ATM waiting for cash.
Categories: China, Photo Essays, Social Class • Tags: Guangzhou, homeless
Category Archives: Social Class
Faux Vintage Photos and Profound Academic Labor
Weekly field assignments are making for a very interesting and useful pedagogical experiment in this Fall’s Introduction to Anthropology class. Reviewing and scoring the field journals each Tuesday, however, makes for some intense grading. At least taking a fake Daguerreotype photo of the pile of black Moleskine notebooks, and posting it on Facebook makes it feel like the work of grading is more profound than it might otherwise be. UPDATE: Last night I finished evaluating the last of the journals, […]
Categories: Introduction to Anthropology, Photography, Representation, Social Class • Tags: assignments, faux vinage, school
Candy Crush Saga and the Hänsel and Gretel Economy
[I was going through some old drafts of posts-never-completed this morning and decided to delete the ones I’ll likely never complete. Others, like this one are parts of ideas or beginnings of drafts that never got finished but don’t deserve to be deleted because there is something there worth keeping. So I’ve decided to just post them as-is.] bout six weeks ago I started playing Candy Crush Saga. A few days ago I stopped playing it at Level 147, because after […]
Categories: Anthropology, Consumption, Games, Play, Social Class • Tags: Candy Crush Saga, casual games, economy, Hänsel and Gretel, iPad, pay-as-you-go
MUSEUM FATIGUE 