Friday, February 26, 2010

Himalayan blue granite: Readers - This interpretation of actual & virtual Harbin is pool-centric, Others may choose simply to go into the Harbin pools

Harbin ethnography:


... generate ethnographic representation.

This book won't please all of these readers at the same time. In engaging the academic discipline of anthropology, some may find the language of this book to be too formal. Others may find it too distant from their unique experiences of Harbin's milieu itself. Others may wish that this volume's interpretation of actual and virtual Harbin is not so pool-centric, while others, after reading this text, may simply go to Harbin to be in the pools there. Those whose interests lie primarily in life in virtual worlds may wish that I had not spent so much time on the actual Harbin ethnography, and those who find knowledge about virtual avatars and worlds redundant may wish I had focused this text solely on the ethnography of actual Harbin. While I can hope that a few of these groups might find edification with some parts of this book, I recognize that not all readers will find all of these ideas conversation-generating at the same time.

“Actual/Virtual Harbin Hot Springs' Ethnography” examines ...








(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/02/himalayan-blue-granite-readers-this.html - February 26, 2010)

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