Harbin Hot Springs' Book Publisher - Recent Outline
Just heard back from a great sociocultural Anthropology book publisher in Brooklyn NY / Oxford UK that they won't publish my Harbin Hot Springs' manuscript. Here below is the outline as well as Duncan's email.
I may take this as an opportunity to focus on finding / developing a publisher that fully integrates the web, including virtual worlds and "ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy" with paper print publishing. Quaker publishers in SF with Google Publisher with the first book in English at World University and School's Academic Press (planned in all 7,929 languages).
Academic_Press_at_World_University_and_School
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Academic_Press_at_World_University_and_School
How to look at my Harbin book as an ASSET would be worthwhile.
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Berghahn Books
New Book Outline
USA:
Berghahn Books Inc, 20 Jay Street, Suite 512,
Brooklyn NY 11201, / USA
Tel: +1 (212) 233-6004 Fax: +1 (212) 233-6007
UK:
Berghahn Books Ltd, 3, Newtec Place, Magdalen Road
Oxford OX4 1RE / UK
Tel: +44 (0) 1865-250 011 Fax: +44 (0) 1865-250 056
Email: EditorialUS@berghahnbooks.com
Date (that you completed this form): July 4, 2015
Please, return this form to the publisher electronically.
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1. Name, as it will appear in the book: Scott Gordon Kenneth MacLeod III
Correct pronunciation, if likely to be mispronounced: “MacCloud”
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2. Home address:
PO Box 442, (86 Ridgecrest Road),
Canyon, CA 94516
Tel: 412 478 0116 Fax: NA Email: scott@scottmacleod.com
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3. Professional address:
World University and School, PO Box 442,
PO Box 442, Canyon, CA 94516
Tel: 415 480 4577 Email: sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org
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4. Nationality (required for copyright purposes): USA
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5. Date of Birth (needed for the Library of Congress and British Library): 12/31/1960
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6. Please provide a short Biographical Note (maximum 50 words) that can be included on the cover of your book and used for promotional material. Please, attach any details of previous appointments [with dates], published works, and any other information that might be relevant in a separate Word document.
Scott MacLeod's (http://www.scottmacleod.com) research focuses on the anthropology of information technology and counterculture. He's taught "Society and Information Technology" on Harvard’s virtual Island for many years where he also teaches anthropology and sociology. He’s the founder and president of World University and School (like Wikipedia with best CC STEM-centric OpenCourseWare – http://worlduniversityandschool.org).
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7. Working Title: Naked Harbin
Subtitle: Harbin Hot Springs' Actual/Virtual Ethnography ~
Hippies, Warm Pools, Counterculture & Clothing-Optional, Virtual Harbin
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8. Suggested Delivery Date: As early as October-September 15, 2015 or in time for the Christmas market, if possible, or sometime in the spring of 2016
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9. Approximate Word Count (to include all notes and references; a page count is not accurate as the words per page varies according to fonts and margins): 147,000
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10. Do you hold the Copyright? Yes
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11. Does it include any illustrations (halftones, maps, diagrams, tables, etc.)?
No Yes, please indicate: Fewer than 20.
If so, how many? (the maximum number of photos permitted for the print edition is 20 in black and white)
I’d like to print 20 black and white photos, including also Second Life photos I’ve taken. (Are these considered Black and White Photos or are they separate?)
Are any of these illustrations not author-created and in need of permissions? IF you have questions about this, please be in touch with us.
Some of the photos may be, about which I’ll be in touch with you, if possible.
Additional photographs and supplemental material may be hosted on our web site. Do you have any material you would like to be considered for this option? if so, please describe.
1) Audio interviews with Harbin residents, 2) Blog resources from my web site, 3) Harbin Resources from Google Earth, 4) Online Harbin resources from their web site
Please note: It is the author’s responsibility to obtain copyright clearance and pay any fees for use in print and online.
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12. Has any of the material been previously published (if so, where)?
3 ½ draft chapters have been published here in my personal blog:
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/Harbin%20Book%20Section (read up)
Does the work have origins as a dissertation or, if it is an edited volume, as a collection of conference papers?
No
Is the work currently being considered by another publisher (if so, by whom)?
No
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13. If the book is to be an edited collection, have you approached the contributors yet?
No, it’s not
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14. Please attach proposed list of contributors and chapter outline – NA
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15. Please describe your book briefly (200-300 words at the most) for intending readers:
An anthropology of the 1960s-70s forward, counterculture, virtual worlds and information technology
After you check in at the gate at Harbin, one resident who has worked there for years often says, "Go play." This ethnography of Harbin Hot Springs in northern California explicitly and theoretically brings together approaches to the comparative study of both the actual and virtual, by developing new methodologies in studying Harbin - as a kind of hippy or Alternative haven from modernity. Through this anthropological book and conceiving of virtual Harbin, you can begin not only to "be there" - to visit Harbin virtually in the text, as it were - but also to revisit the 1960s and its related freedom-seeking movements. Moreover, Harbin Hot Springs' clothing-optionality, spirituality and alternative culture are attractive in mysterious ways. In the way that Margaret Mead's work was theoretical and gained widespread attention at the same time, this book will appeal due to the broad interest in emerging interactive virtual worlds, as well as 1960's informed alternative Harbin's exotic, yet familiar, attractiveness, now mediated digitally. As information technologies and wondrous developments like virtual worlds continue to develop rapidly, I hope to engage you, the reader, further in the conversation about the creativity in countercultural thinking, in virtual worlds, in comparative ethnography, and in the experiences of interacting in this virtual Harbin, even as visitors to actual Harbin enjoy visiting this hot springs' retreat center.
- Scott MacLeod
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16. Please describe your book in a short paragraph of 50-100 words for librarians and booksellers:
The book's target audiences are undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, information technology social scientists, academics interested in the "virtual," and people with a fondness for the 1960s. My book comes into conversation with Tom Boellstorff's "Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human" (Princeton 2008), and could be read in academic courses in direct conversation with "Coming of Age in SL." For my next Harbin book, I plan to build a virtual Harbin, ideally in a movie-realistic interactive 3D virtual earth, Google-made, and do actual virtual comparative fieldwork, what I'm calling ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy - as an innovative methodology in Anthropology. I'd like for readers to be able to visit virtual Harbin and have a Harbin experience, in their bathtubs, for example, for the meditative releasing action of the warm waters, - and write ethnographically about this.
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17. Competing or similar titles (if any) (author, title, pub. date, price):
Anthropology - Related titles:
Boellstorff, Tom. 2008. Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. $24.95.
Boellstorff, Tom . 2012. (Author), Bonnie Nardi (Author), Celia Pearce (Author), and T. L. Taylor (Author), George E. Marcus (Foreword). 2012. Ethnography and Virtual Worlds: A Handbook of Method Paperback. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. $14.46.
Niman, Michael I. 2011 (1997). People of the Rainbow: A Nomadic Utopia. (2nd edition). Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press. $22.22.
Harbin Hot Springs - Related titles:
Dull, Harold, with the Water Family. 2008 (2004, 1997, 1993). Watsu: Freeing the Body in Water and with Tantsu on Land. 4th edition. Middletown, CA: Watsu Publishing. $27.50.
Ishvara. 2002. Oneness in Living: Kundalini Yoga, the Spiritual Path, and the Intentional Community. Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books. $24.95
Klages, Ellen. 1993 (1991). Harbin Hot Springs: Healing Waters, Sacred Land. Middletown, CA: Harbin Springs Publishing. $29.47.
Wyne, Sajjad. 1997. The Big Bang and the Harbin Experience. Middletown, CA: Harbin Springs Publishing. $62.88.
Rainbow Gathering - Related titles:
Butterfly Bill. 2010. Rainbow Gatherings. Bliss Fire Press. $15.00.
Butterfly Bill. 2013. Rainbow Gatherings, Volume Two: 2000 - 2012 (Volume 2). CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. $16.20.
Niman, Michael I. 2011 (1997). People of the Rainbow: A Nomadic Utopia. (2nd edition). Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press. $22.22.
Tom Thumb. 2013. Somewhere Under the Rainbow: A personal journey into the Rainbow Gatherings. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. $14.39.
1960s - Related Titles:
Kerouac, Jack. 1958. The Dharma Bums. New York, NY: The Viking Press.
Snyder, Gary. 1969. Earth House Hold. New York, NY: A New Directions Book.
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18. How does your book differ?
Naked Harbin is an actual-virtual ethnographic comparison based on extensive field work at actual Harbin Hot Springs, but comes into direct conversation with Boellstorff's "Coming of Age in Second Life," which is based on extensive field work in the 3D interactive virtual world of Second Life. My "Naked Harbin" also examines the significance of making a virtual field site for actual-virtual comparison.
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19. Additional material: Please attach a table of contents, chapter outline, or sample chapter.
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20. If your book is suitable for course use: Please describe as precisely as possible those types of courses for which it could be required or recommended and for what level (e.g. undergraduate or graduate):
“Naked Harbin” could be required or recommended to be read in parallel with the following courses, for example:
Syllabi with Tom Boellstorff’s “Coming of Age in Second Life” (Princeton 2008) in them
The Anthropology of Cybercultures (MIT OpenCourseWare)
Professor Lucy Suchman
MIT OpenCourseWare
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/anthropology/21a-850j-the-anthropology-of-cybercultures-spring-2009/readings/
The Anthropology of Computing: Digital Cultures
Professor Lucy Suchman
MIT
https://stellar.mit.edu/S/course/21A/sp09/21A.350J/
Qualitative Research Methods for Information Systems
Professor Jenna Burrell
UC Berkeley
http://courses.ischool.berkeley.edu/i272/f10/syllabus.html
digital media & virtual performance
Prof. Kiri Miller
Brown University
https://wiki.brown.edu/confluence/download/attachments/90834050/1971G+VP+syllabus+2014.pdf?version=1&modificationDate=1409665583000
Information, Technology, and Society
Steve Jackson
Cornell University
http://sjackson.infosci.cornell.edu/IS6210%20InfoTechSociety%20syllabus%208nov12.pdf
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21. MARKET: Do you envision your book to have audience potential outside of the academic market, such as in the professional or practioner/policy realms? Yes
This book could influence social theorizing of cyberspace as interactive movie realistic virtual earths emerge.
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22. When you send in a manuscript (although not to begin with), then please DO NOT BIND the manuscript; just tie it together with elastic band.
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23. reviewers: Please, recommend at least four or five names (with school affiliations and e-mail addresses wherever possible) of potential reviewers qualified to assess your work.
Nelson Graburn, University of California, Berkeley, graburn@berkeley.edu
Dean MacCannell, University of California, Davis, edmaccannell@ucdavis.edu
Tom Boellstorff, University of California, Irvine, tboellst@uci.edu
Noel Salazar, KU Leuven, Belgium, noel.salazar@soc.kuleuven.be
Jim Ferguson, Stanford University, jgfergus@stanfard.edu
Saskia Cousin, Paris Descartes, France, saskia.cousin@parisdescartes.fr
24. Any other remarks:
- In what Berlin/Hamburg/European bookstores/venues might I do readings and signings - and at what time of year would be best?
- Scott is founder and President of CC World University and School - which is like CC Wikipedia in 288 languages and best CC STEM-centric OpenCourseWare (e.g. CC MIT OCW in 7 languages and CC Yale OYC) - and which plans to develop a virtual Harbin for ethnographic and STEM field work as part of a virtual Earth, and as “Classrooms” too.
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/07/magnolia-henryi-harbin-hot-springs.html
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Dear Scott, We have taken the time to evaluate your book proposal and, unfortunately, we must pass on it. I don’t think that we are the best press for the project, which should find a press that is oriented toward a more general audience.
We also don't have the resources to assist with integrating the digital and print materials that you envision. Yours looks like a compelling project, and we are positive you will find a publisher for it. All the best, Duncan Ranslem ____________________________________________________________________________ Duncan Ranslem Editorial Assistant, Berghahn Books 20 Jay Street, Suite 512 | Brooklyn, NY 11201 Tel: +1 (212) 233-6004 | Fax: +1 (212) 233-6007 On 7/21/15 3:39 PM, "Scott MacLeod"wrote:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Dear Duncan, This sounds like good news indeed. Thank you. If you'd like, I would send you a PDF of my 400 page draft "Naked Harbin" manuscript. Also, here are 2 further questions: When would a new ethnographic text need to be in print to be selected for anthropology courses at universities worldwide in autumn 2016? If this is about a year from now, say in July or August 2016, some professors might add it to their syllabi as a required text. What also are some of the characteristics of ethnographic books that sell 10,000 print copies - if these are a "group?" All the best, Scott On 7/21/15 9:58 AM, Duncan Ranslem wrote:Dear Scott, This is a pretty unique project, and I’m excited to get into it more over the next few weeks. Unfortunately, our time horizons are a bit too long to allow us to publish a book by this autumn. Realistically, we might expect a publication date set next autumn, barring any major manuscript revisions or unexpected delays. All the best, Duncan Ranslem ____________________________________________________________________________Duncan Ranslem Editorial Assistant, Berghahn Books 20 Jay Street, Suite 512 | Brooklyn, NY 11201 Tel: +1 (212) 233-6004 | Fax: +1 (212) 233-6007 On 7/21/15 11:52 AM, "Scott MacLeod"wrote: Dear Duncan, Thanks so much for letting me know that Berghahn Press is gathering comments about my actual/virtual Harbin Hot Springs' book proposal. My first questions are: if Berghahn Books accepted it for publication, is there a possibility that we could publish it this autumn? And what would that entail? I couldn't think of a better press to publish with than Berghahn, since you specialize in sociocultural Anthropology. Thank you! All the best, Scott - -- - - Scott MacLeod - Founder & President - - http://worlduniversityandschool.org - - 415 480 4577 - - PO Box 442, (86 Ridgecrest Road), Canyon, CA 94516 - - World University and School - like Wikipedia with best STEM-centric OpenCourseWare - incorporated as a nonprofit university and school in California, and is a U.S. 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt educational organization, both effective April 2010.
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See too both of these Harbin exploration blog posts ...Jerdon’s Courser: Visit the Harbin Gate now in Google Earth, and walk down the road to Middletown, California, Sent my actual-virtual Harbin Hot Springs' ethnographic book proposal "Naked Harbin" to Publisher this morning, Virtual Earth for STEM research will hopefully be Google made ... And building Virtual Harbin in a virtual Earth for STEM-centric research including ethnographic and anthropological research will be part of this, including especially for ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy, India and B.I.R.D.S. - Bharati Integrated Rural Development Society, Here's India World University and School, with much MIT OCW, Would love to visit BIRDS in a 3D interactive film-realistic Google virtual earth ... which could be used for education, free CC university degrees and organic farming development planning
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/07/jerdons-courser-visit-harbin-gate-now.htmlHimalayan Quail (Ophrysia superciliosa): Just "walked" ~ 'arrowed' on my computer keyboard ~ down the Harbin road from the Harbin Gatehouse to the new Middletown Library, Google Earth - great - just updated toward interactive movie realism and as virtual Harbin ethnographic field site, See, too, this interesting Lego-virtual world development re the actual and the virtual, an important aspect of my Harbin ethnographic book manuscript ... Some field notes from walking down the Harbin Springs road from the Harbin gate in the newly updated Google Earth, Harbin field notes in this blog ... free, re Harbin field work, more research is needed to reiterate an academic cliche ... When will these Google Earth tiled photos become film realistic, live, 3D and interactive?, Just "flew" above ~ clicking on satellite view in Google Earth ~ Harbin Hot Springs ... Harbin HCC 40th Anniversary pamphlet
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/06/himalayan-quail-ophrysia-superciliosa.html
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