Web - L'uso intensivo del cellulare da parte di larghi strati della popolazione è un fenomeno che riguarda una parte consistente del mondo più ricco e, dunque, un numero importante di paesi. Anche per questo un gruppo di studio di Context Research ha analizzato l'uso del cellulare dal punto di vista antropologico.

In questo sito Duccio Canestrini raccoglie bibliografie specializzate, saggi e links di antropologia del turismo. Al contempo, presenta il suo lavoro sull'uso ricreativo del territorio, sull'immaginario e sui riti - vecchi e nuovi - del viaggio.

How may internet use be related to social and cultural change? Debates on this question have proliferated. Yet, conceptions of change in such debates have remained conspicuously under-theorized. This book approaches these issues through anthropological research among ‘teleworkers’…

Paolo Apolito is a professor of Cultural Anthropology at the University of Salerno, and the University of Roma Tre. He is the author of numerous books, published by il Mulino, Franco Angeli, and Editori Riuniti. Among his works are: "Dice che ha visto la Madonnna" (1990); Il cielo in terra: costruzioni simboliche di un'apparizione mariana (1992); Sguardi e modelli (1993); and La religione degli italiani (2001).

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The theory of ethnic relations has developed ad hoc on an interdisciplinary basis. It has dealt with ethnicity in small communities, larger ethnic groups or "ethnies", ethnic nations, modernising nation states, subordinate nationalisms, the establishment of empires, post- imperial situations, transnational migrant communities and the political problems facing modernising nation states in dealing both with subordinate nationalisms and with migrant ethnic minorities.

CyberAnthropology recognizes that the new 'virtual' communities are no longer defined by geographic or even semiotic (ethnic/religious/linguistic) boundaries. Instead, communities are being constructed in cyberspace on the basis of common affiliative interests, transcending boundaries of class, nation, race, gender, and language. Even as old systems of social organization are imploding, the various 'virtual communities' are growing. (cf. Howard Rheingold.) This parallels the way in which on the global scene civil society is reclaiming social space from both the public and private sectors - how the NGO (nongovernmental organization) is continuing to check the power of the nation-state and the multinational corporation.

This special issue of the Jurnal Antropologi Indonesia originated in a suggestion by Nuria W. Soeharto, a student in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Indonesia. She wanted a session on the Internet and Identity included in the 3rd Journal conference scheduled for July, 2002, in Denpasar, Bali. Her interest in the topic flowed from her own experience of and research on the role of the Internet in the Indonesian reformasi of 1998.

It is arguable that the "gloom and doom" phase, particularly in North American Anthropology, could not have come at a more inopportune time.  The motivation in making this observation stems from the transformation of the realities that ethnographers research into more complex subjects, requiring new methods, broadened analytical frames, and taking us into new fora of communication and cultural and interpersonal interaction.  Ethnography has become more challenging and promises richer insights than ever before as a result of phenomena such as community building in cyberspace and the transnationalization of putatively local, Indigenous communities and issues.  In this paper I examine these subjects through reflections on my twenty-one months of field research among the Caribs of Trinidad (still underway), by moving back and forth between the description of a reconstructed indigenous ritual, and the field methods that are used in gathering the data necessary for the description.  In this ritual I see a renegotiation of symbolic capital that spans local, national, regional and global levels.

Dal punto di vista tecnologico Internet è una rete di reti che utilizza protocolli in comune per collegare migliaia di reti in tutto il mondo, ma dal punto di vista dell’arena socioculturale Internet costituisce anche un terreno di ricerca sociale praticamente illimitato per i cosiddetti etnografi del cyberspazio, paragonabile al "Nuovo Mondo" per l’estensione delle terre ancora inesplorate e per la novità dei suoi paesaggi antropici, come furono appunto le Americhe per cronisti viaggiatori al seguito dei Conquistadores…

L'ethnographie appliquée aux relations sociales et aux réseaux sur Internet, par sa pratique concrète d'immersion dans le milieu social, essaie de décrire l'histoire et le ressort des communautés virtuelles, analysant des espaces construits par les individus sociaux en même temps que leurs discours et leurs pratiques.

The concept of diaspora goes back in human history; it was initially used by the ancient Greeks to describe their spreading all over the then known-world. For the ancient Greeks diaspora signified migration and colonisation. For the Jews, the Armenians and the Africans who later adopted the term, the concept implied more painful meanings of loss of a Homeland, violent deterritorialisation and longing for return (Cohen, 1997). As much as the history of migration and settlement for these populations and for other populations that have moved across the globe has changed, so did the concept of diaspora

This paper explores methodological issues raised by an ethnographic approach to the Internet. The paper is motivated by an ongoing concern with the Internet as a technology and as a communication medium. The aim is to develop ways to study not just to how people use the Internet, but also the practices which make those uses of the Internet meaningful in local contexts. The first section of the paper maps out an emerging approach which is illustrated in the second section by data drawn from the Louise Woodward case. The final section reflects on the implications for methodological adequacy of an ethnographic approach increasingly divorced from reliance on a single bounded field site.

Among the most important transformations in the discipline of anthropology over the last hundred years are changes in our conception of what constitutes anthropological knowledge. In the wake of the adoption early in the Twentieth Century of ethnographic fieldwork as something of a methodological standard in social and cultural anthropology came an implicit recognition of the cultural relativity of knowledge, that what counts as “known” varies from cultural to culture. Over the century, this recognition co-existed more or less uneasily with the Malinowskian and both earlier and later forms of commitment to a “science” program in the discipline.

The project of developing an anticipatory anthropology of the future reveals unique ethical opportunities. For example, the increased importance of performance means there is a substantial potential for a substantive "resocialing". of work in organizations, just as the decline of Modernism opens space for collective, situated ethics as opposed to individualized categorical imperatives.

This article investigates the historical development, the major theories and the ethnographic domains of an anthropology of cyberculture. In doing so, the authors use Arturo Escobar's influential paper on cyberanthropology, written in 1994, and connects potential research questions posed in this text with research projects recently conducted at the Viennese Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology.

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We discuss some of the ways that visual materials have been used in anthropology and how digital technology affect our approaches in some ways more than others. Rather than using hypertext and multimedia as analytic endpoints we introduce an approach which hypertext facilitates, conceived as a hierarchical set of layers at differing levels of abstraction with the analytic article or book at one end, furthest from the field experiences on which it is based. University of Kent at Canterbury

The first part of this article surveys the anthropology of time, finding that very little attention has been paid to the myriad social uses of clocks, calendars and other chronometric technologies. The second part illustrates such uses among the Iban of Sarawak (East Malaysia).

Taking its inspiration from the thought and action of Jean-Marie Tjibaou, this essay proposes a comparative analysis of "articulated sites of indigeneity." It explores the advantages and limitations of translating North Atlantic cultural studies approaches into island Pacific contexts. Stuart Hall's articulation theory is proposed as a partial way beyond the stand-offs created by recent debates around the "invention of tradition." The dialectic of indigenous and diasporic histories, roots and routes, is explored with regard to experiences of post- and neocolonial interdependence and pragmatic sovereignty.