Cattle egret: As a professor of Anthropology and Sociology at startup WUaS (e.g. accrediting on CC MIT OCW in 7 languages and CC Yale OYC) and exploring how I'd teach a course entitled "The Anthropology of Harbin Hot Springs, Tourism Studies and Virtual Reality: Students building their own ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy interpretations of Harbin," and having published recently my Actual / Virtual Harbin Hot Springs' ethnography - http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html - which should be available in paper this summer, here's a beginning syllabus with readings based on the chapter titles in my book to be interspersed with readings from Tom Boellstorff's "Coming of Age in Second Life and building projects, Stanford Open Office Hours - Philip Zimbardo, Part 1, Keralan Egrets: Would like to create FREE CULTURE at World Univ & Sch, Hippies Feel Ambivalent About Modernity, Learning from my Father

As a professor of Anthropology and Sociology at startup WUaS (e.g. accrediting on CC MIT OCW in 7 languages and CC Yale OYC) and exploring how I'd teach a course entitled "The Anthropology of Harbin Hot Springs, Tourism Studies and Virtual Reality: Students building their own ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy interpretations of Harbin," and having published recently my Actual / Virtual Harbin Hot Springs' ethnography - http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html - which should be available in paper this summer, here's a beginning syllabus with readings based on the chapter titles in my book to be interspersed with readings from Tom Boellstorff's "Coming of Age in Second Life" and building projects:


"The Anthropology of Harbin Hot Springs re Tourism Studies and Virtual Reality: Students building their own virtual world interpretations of Harbin"


Each chapter corresponds to a week in a semester (and I'll later intersperse chapter by chapter reading from Tom's book, as well as building assignments):

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


Virtuality and Harbin – Harbin as unfolding hippie vision apart form history

(and re: http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/02/slender-loris-harbin-ethnography.html)


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Glad to revisit this Stanford Open Office Hours by Stanford Professor Emeritus, Philip Zimbardo, partly on planned hedonism (re Stanford students) ...

Stanford Open Office Hours: Philip Zimbardo, Part 1

https://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=614090435683

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and re this blog post from 2010 ...

Keralan Egrets: Would like to create FREE CULTURE at World Univ & Sch, Hippies Feel Ambivalent About Modernity, Learning from my Father

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/03/kerala-egrets-would-like-to-create-free.html

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cattle_egret

These 3 posts are linked: 

Monday, May 16, 2016

Cattle egret: As a professor of Anthropology and Sociology at startup WUaS (e.g. accrediting on CC MIT OCW in 7 languages and CC Yale OYC) and exploring how I'd teach a course entitled "The Anthropology of Harbin Hot Springs …

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2016/05/cattle-egret-as-professor-of.html

Tuesday, May 17, 2016

Egret: "The Anthropology of Virtual Reality: Building a Field Site for Ethno-Wiki-Virtual-World-Graphy" (and possibly as touristic destinations in Street View in Google Cardboard headset for example) ... 

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2016/05/egret-in-planning-for-teaching-my.html

Thursday, May 19, 2016

Sunflower: Two possible directions I see here in terms of translating "the courses into Chinese”… 

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2016/05/sunflower-two-possible-directions-i-see.html

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