Toadstool: New Ethno-Genres, Language, Flow

Some new genres of writing under the toadstool cap of sociocultural anthropology:

ethno-blog-o-graphy - writing ethnography in the form of a blog (which is short for 'web log') - {It's more finished as a form than field notes} - so-named.

or ethno-blog-virtual-world-o-graphy {in conjunction with virtual worlds}.

or ethno-wiki-virtual-world-o-graphy {MMmmm :)}.


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I heard a beautiful soliloquy about language yesterday {by a linguist-anthropologist} at Cal, which drew on the way people have thought about it 'scientifically,' first as a system, then the departures from that. So I had some "flow: the psychology of optimal experience" experiences, and when one's 'there,' the experience of 'flow' in one's bodymind is freeing - a kind of floating freely in the brain which sailing with a fair wind. {What is going on neurally?} Hearing about the beauty of language, by someone who knows language, can articulate why and how people have thought it 'works,' and how language is remarkable and beautiful, engaging reason, can be like flying & ...