Naked Harbin:
Harbin Hot Springs' Actual/Virtual Ethnography -
Hippies, Warm Pools, Counterculture & Clothing-Optional, Virtual Harbin
Harbin Hot Springs' Actual/Virtual Ethnography -
Hippies, Warm Pools, Counterculture & Clothing-Optional, Virtual Harbin
Naked Harbin: Harbin Hot Springs' Actual/Virtual Ethnography - Hippies, Warm Pools, Counterculture & Clothing-Optional, Virtual Harbin
Scott MacLeod
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MacLeod, Scott, 1960-
Harbin Hot Springs' Actual/Virtual Ethnography: Hippies, Warm Pools, Counterculture & Clothing-Optional, Virtual Harbin / Scott MacLeod.
p.cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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1. Ethnology-Field work. 2. Ethnology-Computer network resources. 3. Ethnology-Interactive media. 4. Internet. 5. Virtual reality. I. Title.
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305.7
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To Jane MacLeod, my mother, for everything, with love
Contents
List of Illustrations x
List of Art xi
Acknowledgments xii
Part I: Setting the Harbin Hot Springs' Stage
Chapter 1: The Subject and Scope of this Inquiry
Arrivals and departures – Everyday Harbin – Terms of discussion – The emergence of actual Harbin – The emergence of virtual Harbin – Harbin Residents – What this, a book, does.
Chapter 2: History
Prehistories of Harbin: From modernity to counterculture, from actual to virtual – Histories of Harbin – A personal Harbin history – Histories of Harbin research - Challenges of Developing a Virtual Harbin and Writing this Harbin ethnography - Harbin as dream, ethnographically, in actuality
Chapter 3: Method
Harbin on its own terms - Anthropology and ethnography – Participant observation – Interviews, Pool work and virtual developments – Ethics – Claims and reflexivity – Actual Harbin and virtual Harbin compared and contrasted
Part II: Harbin as Counterculture emerging from Modernity
Chapter 4: Place and Time
Visuality and Harbin – The Harbin Valley – Traveling to and from Harbin – Immersion - Presence
Chapter 5: Personhood
The self – Harbin's life course – Harbin personhood – The pools, the 1960s and clothing-optionalness as milieu – Gender and race – Agency
Chapter 6: Practices
Language – Friendship – Intimacy - Sexuality – Love – Family – Connectedness - Oneness
Chapter 7: Community
Events at Harbin – The group – Heart Consciousness Church and New Age Church of Being - Heart Consciousness and its Expressions - The Pool Area - Milieu of Openness
Chapter 8: Political Economy
A Business emerging out 1960's and early 70's counterculture – Northern California as Political Economy - Money and labor – Property – Governance – Inequality – Life in the Harbin Valley
Part III: Virtual Harbin
Chapter 9: Harbin as a Virtual World
Virtual Harbin residents – Harbin culture in virtual Harbin – Simulation – Fiction and design – Many Harbin residents in-world – Toward an anthropology of actual and virtual Harbin
Chapter 10: Virtuality and Harbin – Harbin as unfolding hippie vision apart form history
Illustrations
Figure 1.1: Harbin Gate House
Figure 1.2: Harbin 'Gate House' in-world
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List of Art at Harbin
Acknowledgments
The Harbin pools
- Harbin Hot Springs
– for their fount of ease, and from which I find the inspiration
B.H.
-for helping me set up the first virtual Harbin in Open Simulator
Tom Boellstorff
– for this book “Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human” – which I found to be invaluable for structure and with which to come into conversation in this draft
- for his willingness to allow me to start to build the first, virtual Harbin Gatehouse on the American Anthropological Association's virtual Anteater Island in Second Life, before my laptop, with knapsack, was stolen in June 2009 in San Francisco, such that I didn't proceed with that building of the virtual Harbin
U.C. Berkeley Professors N.G, L.N, A.O., P.R., C.B. T.D. W.H. R.T. and friends at U.C. Berkeley
(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/02/slender-loris-harbin-ethnography.html - January 19, 2010)
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