MetaFilter posts tagged with Ethnography

Avatara: the movie

Rumple — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 00:44:44 -0800

Avatara is a 2003 ethnographic film (72 minutes) that takes place entirely in "Cyberia", specifically in the Digitalspace Traveler virtual world (previously), which dates back to 1996. Interview with the filmmaker. Review of the film. via Also see: Archive.org's "Archiving Virtual Worlds" index.

The Ethnosphere

homunculus — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 16:50:08 -0800

"Cultures at the far edge of the world" (YT) and "The worldwide web of belief and ritual" (YT). Two TED talks by anthropologist and explorer Wade Davis (previously) on the diversity of the world's indigenous cultures and their beliefs, and the richness of the "Ethnosphere," which he describes as "the sum total of all thoughts and dreams, myths, ideas, inspirations, intuitions brought into being by the human imagination since the dawn of consciousness." [Via Mind Hacks]

"Tonight we will venture to the stages where the zombies have created an elaborate charade to lure the living."

amberglow — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 13:46:35 -0800

Rude at Bonnaroo --eventblogging as mock ethnographic survey of sorts, in the proud tradition of Margaret Mead -- and Body Ritual Among the Nacirema. (from the ever Rude Pundit, who's also performing there) ; >

Plants and peoples of Britain and South Asia

Gyan — Sat, 12 Nov 2005 19:37:57 -0800

Plant Cultures - central aim ... is to convey the richness and complexity of links between Britain and South Asia, through the story of plants and people

Edward Curtis & Native American Photography

.kobayashi. — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 08:44:40 -0800

Selling the American Indian: The controversial work of Edward S. Curtis

The Elliot Avedon Museum and Archive of Games

plep — Wed, 16 Jul 2003 00:34:09 -0800

The Elliot Avedon Museum and Archive of Games. Board games from a thirteenth-century 'Book of Games', Inuit games, card games, row games, puzzles, ethnographical papers on games, etc.
A different kind of game at Streetplay - stickball, hopscotch, galleries, and street games worldwide.

Huarochiri: A Peruvian Culture in Time

plep — Wed, 28 May 2003 23:36:06 -0800

Huarochiri: A Peruvian Culture in Time. 'Huarochir is an Andean province near Lima, Peru. This site offers an ethnographic and historical tour of some of its communities. It samples the Huarochir Quechua Manuscript, which alone among colonial documents explains a pre-Christian tradition in an Andean language, and visits modern highlanders who inhabit and interpret the mythic landscape.' Related :- Martin Chambi. Chambi was an Amerindian Peruvian photographer famous for his photographs of indigenous Andean life. The site is in Spanish - no impediment to enjoying the photographs.

For them 'gays in the military' is a necessity.

dgaicun — Thu, 21 Nov 2002 07:13:39 -0800

Now, in response to yesterdays shocking data that Americans are an unworldly, culturally ignorant batch, we bring you a much needed ethnographic survey. Take time to learn about The Semen Warriors of New Guinea. Not since the Yanomamo, have anthropologists found a group so vital to our quest of understanding the limits and details of human nature.