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Keep Your Drones At Home

December 14, 2015 by Museum Fatigue

A few days ago some students stopped by my office to ask me about an email that they had all just received from the Dean of Students Office. The message announced a ban on the use of drones on campus. The sudden appearance of the all-campus message suggested that there had been an incident that precipitated the response. The students knew that my Digital Anthropology class has been doing some unusual final mini-projects this semester and were curious if the […]

Categories: Books, Play • Tags: drones, email, safety, security

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Hacking With Squirrels: Yeti Campus Stories

November 25, 2015 by Museum Fatigue

This semester our digital anthropology seminar has covered a lot of ground. We have been so busy, in fact, that I haven’t had much time to even do all of the blogging that I had planned. I hope to do some catching up at the end of the semester. We have read many interesting things, enjoyed thought-provoking conversations, and have just scratched the surface of the issues we have taken up. We have also had some fun, so I thought […]

Categories: Digital Anthropology • Tags: apps, campus culture, hacking, Social Media, Yeti: Campus Stories

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Midway Conversations 2015: Neighborhood Documentary Projects Premiere

May 19, 2015 by Museum Fatigue

 “We aren’t training to be filmmakers, but use our cameras to learn. Our neighbors have taught us so much.” This past Sunday afternoon our Visual Anthropology class hosted its fourth annual public screening and “thank you” party for our neighborhood—The Hamline Midway. While in previous years we had an early evening slot, this year the only time available was a late weekend afternoon. Despite this, however, we were very pleased to see nearly one hundred people in attendance. We ate […]

Categories: Anthropology, Assignments, Documentary, Visual Anthropology, Visual Anthropology Class • Tags: Hamline Midway, Hamline University, Hamline University Anthropology Department, Hamline-Midway Neighborhood, Midway Conversations, neighborhood, neighborhood research

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Need Cash: Guangzhou, China

March 12, 2015 by Museum Fatigue

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

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Donkey Meat BBQ(驴肉火烧)

March 6, 2015 by Museum Fatigue

While on the street in Zhengzhou looking for a quick lunch we passed a roadside shop selling chopped donkey meat in northern style Chinese bread bing. The meat looked like it was cooked in a style approximating the slow cooking of BBQ. It had a healthy amount of tasty fat and was chopped together with cilantro, raw garlic and green peppers. Served hot in the bing it was a pretty tasty treat. The raw garlic gave it quite a bite—and gave me excellent […]

Categories: Food • Tags: donkey meat, street food

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Mobile Visual Ethnography Kit

February 18, 2015 by Museum Fatigue

Last year I posted a bit about the simple, mobile equipment that I have put together for the students in my visual anthropology class to use on their visual documentary projects. This year I have made a few updates that are worth a quick share. I’m still committed to using Zoom H1s for audio capture—there really isn’t a better recorder for the price—and I’m a big fan of the tripod/case accessory package that is available for the Zoom H1 on […]

Categories: Anthropology, Fieldwork, Gear, How To, Visual Anthropology • Tags: Canon VIXIA HF R500, FurryHead Windscreens, mobile equipment, visual ethnography, Zoom H1

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Have Mobile Phones In the Classroom Reached Their Calculator Moment?

February 9, 2015 by Museum Fatigue

Last week, while reviewing our class syllabus on the first day, I made a decision to do a little experiment. Rather than make the announcement that mobile phones should be turned off during class, I did the opposite. I told my visual anthropology class that unrestricted use of mobile phones in class would be allowed this semester. Allowing all students to use their devices freely at all times seems very counterintuitive. In fact, even now I am concerned that in […]

Categories: Education, Higher Education, Teaching, Technology • Tags: calculator, classroom experience, iPhone, mobile phone, technology, TI-35

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Bento’s Sketchbook: John Berger on Drawing

February 3, 2015 by Museum Fatigue

[I was going through some old drafts of posts-never-completed this morning and decided to delete the ones I’ll never get back to. Others, like this one are just collections of quotes that never got turned into anything. Nevertheless they might be useful someday so I’ve decided to just post them as-is] “At first you question…in order to discover lines, shapes, tones that you can take on the paper. The drawing accumulates the answers. Also, of course, it accumulate corrections, after […]

Categories: Books, Drawing • Tags: John Berger, notebooks, sketching

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Utopia or Bust Is a Fine Guide to Our Present Crisis

February 2, 2015 by Museum Fatigue

This past December Verso had an incredible book sale—50% off everything and digital books at a fraction of their list price. To top it off, they did something that I wish every bookseller did—buy the book and get the digital book for free. The sale provided the excuse I needed to catch up on books I have been eager to read, such as Gabriella Coleman’s, Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Many Faces of Anonymous. While browsing, however, I also picked up […]

Categories: Books, Crisis, Review • Tags: Benjamin Kunkel, Boris Groys, David Graeber, David Harvey, Fredric Jameson, Marxism, Robert Brenner, Slavoj Zizek, Utopia

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Mystery Object #22: Pop Cowboy UniSex Shampoo

January 19, 2015 by Museum Fatigue

After a long day on the road, we checked in to our hotel in Pailn—a small town near the border with Thailand—and the first thing I wanted to do was take a shower. So, imagine my surprise when I found two mystery objects on the back of the toilet seat. On the front of the single use packages was written—”Pop Cowboy UniSex” featuring a cowboy and a cowgirl(?) together with the symbols ♀ and ♂ in pink. The cowboy even […]

Categories: Advertising, Bodies, Mystery Objects • Tags: cowboy, product, sexuality

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