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Adam Bohannon

THE END(S) OF ETHNOGRAPHY: Social/Cultural Anthropology's Signature Form of Producing Knowledge in Transition - 0 views

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anthropology ethnography

shared by Adam Bohannon on 04 Apr 08 - Cached
  • Adam Bohannon on 04 Apr 08
     
    Today's investment in and calls for public anthropology are one symptom of the profound rupture and reorganization of the research agendas of social/cultural anthropology as it moved away from the four-field organization of anthropology into an alignment with certain humanities-driven, energetically interdisciplinary appropriations of the concerns of the social sciences in the name of "theory." In anthropology, this story can most cogently be told by focusing on what happened to its central professional culture of method: what ethnography looks like today and the conditions of research, encompassing fieldwork, that produce it. This article is an examination of this reorganization of social/cultural anthropology, which has left the center of the discipline intellectually weak relative to the vitality of its diverse interdisciplinary and even nonacademic engagements. It asks whether this post-1980s reorganized social/cultural anthropology might rediscover and reunite with some of its historic core associations (four-field as well as topical) in the new terrains of research and partnerships on the peripheries of its old disciplinary center.
Adam Bohannon

Collective Action in Action: Prosocial Behavior in and out of the Laboratory - 0 views

www.anthrosource.net.er.lib.ksu.edu/...j.1548-1433.2008.00024.x

altruism anthropology bolivia cooperation economics experimental tsimane

shared by Adam Bohannon on 28 Aug 08 - No Cached
  • Adam Bohannon on 28 Aug 08
     
    Experiments have become a popular method to study altruism and cooperation in laboratory and, more recently, in field settings. However, few studies have examined whether behavior in experiments tells us anything about behavior in the "real world." To investigate the external validity of several common experimental economics games, we compare game behavior with prosocial behavior among Tsimane forager-horticulturalists of lowland Bolivia. We find that food-sharing patterns, social visitation, beer production and consumption, labor participation, and contributions to a feast are not robustly correlated with levels of giving in the economics games. Payoff structure and socioecological context may be more important in predicting prosocial behavior in a wide variety of domains than stable personality traits. We argue that future experimental methods should be tailored to specific research questions, show reduced anonymity, and incorporate repeat measures under a variety of conditions to inform and redirect ethnographic study and build scientific theory.
Matthew Schuler

Smarty Plants: Inside the World's Only Plant-Intelligence Lab - 0 views

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deadair

shared by Matthew Schuler on 24 Jan 08 - Cached
  • "If you define intelligence as the capacity to solve problems, plants have a lot to teach us," says Mancuso, dressed in harmonizing shades of his favorite color: green. "Not only are they 'smart' in how they grow, adapt and thrive, they do it without neuroses. Intelligence isn't only about having a brain."
  • plants have a lot to contribute in fields as disparate as robotics and telecommunications. For instance, current projects at the LINV include a plant-inspired robot in development for the European Space Agency. The "plantoid" might be used to explore the Martian soil by dropping mechanical "pods" capable of communicating with a central "stem," which would send data back to Earth.
  • Mancuso decided to use the controversial term "plant neurobiology" to reinforce the idea that plants have biochemistry, cell biology and electrophysiology similar to the human nervous system.
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  • In addition to studies on the effects of music on vineyards, the center's researchers have also published papers on gravity sensing, plant synapses and long-distance signal transmission in trees.
  • "Plants communicate via chemical substances," Mancuso says. "They have a specific and fairly extensive vocabulary to convey alarms, health and a host of other things. We just have sound waves broken down into various languages, I don't see how we could bridge the gap."
Matthew Schuler

StormWorm botnet lashes out at security researchers - Boing Boing - 0 views

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deadair

shared by Matthew Schuler on 24 Jan 08 - Cached
  • The Storm Worm botnet (thought to be the largest network of compromised machines in the world) has begun to figure out which security researchers are trying to disrupt its command-and-control systems and knock them offline with unmanagable crapfloods from its zillions of zombie machines. The worm can figure out which users are trying to probe its command-and-control servers, and it retaliates by launching DDoS attacks against them, shutting down their Internet access for days, says Josh Korman, host-protection architect for IBM/ISS, who led a session on network threats. “As you try to investigate [Storm], it knows, and it punishes,” he says. “It fights back.”
Matthew Schuler

Slashdot | Storm Worm More Powerful Than Top Supercomputers - 0 views

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deadair

shared by Matthew Schuler on 24 Jan 08 - Cached
  • Stony Stevenson writes to mention that some security researchers are claiming that the Storm Worm has grown so massive that it could rival the world's top supercomputers in terms of raw power. "Sergeant said researchers at MessageLabs see about 2 million different computers in the botnet sending out spam on any given day, and he adds that he estimates the botnet generally is operating at about 10 percent of capacity. 'We've seen spikes where the owner is experimenting with something and those spikes are usually five to 10 times what we normally see,' he said, noting he suspects the botnet could be as large as 50 million computers. 'That means they can turn on the taps whenever they want to.'"
Mike Wesch

CJOnline Blogs - Haskin: Call for change had to be made - 0 views

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Wesch

shared by Mike Wesch on 28 Jan 09 - Cached
  • Recently, Michael Wesch was named national professor of the year for research and doctoral universities. A few weeks later, Vincent Hofer was named a Rhodes Scholar. One teaches cultural anthropology and one studied agribusiness at Kansas State. Jon Wefald longed to hear from anyone interested in either honoree. "Nobody called," said K-State's longtime university president. Instead, intercollegiate sports dominate far more discussions.
Adam Bohannon

Truemors :: Global Green Behavior Patterns - 0 views

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environment global green research statistics sustainability

shared by Adam Bohannon on 12 May 08 - Cached
  • Adam Bohannon on 12 May 08
     
    It is one thing to talk about going green and another to actually do something about it. A global survey was conducted in fourteen countries to track the behavior of individual consumers when it comes to matters of the environment. The survey looked at the size of peoples homes, the amount of energy consumed for heating and cooling, the number and types of appliances and electronic devices used, the modes of transportation employed, the types of food consumed, consumption habitats of non-essential items, and one's beliefs regarding the environment. See the results here
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