Slender Loris: Title Page, Harbin Ethnography Beginnings, Book Form, Chapters

Harbin ethnography:

Naked 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.
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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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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)