Why start with death?
Photo: Rosie O'Beirne (Creative Commons) Even I would have to admit it wasn’t the obvious way to go. The last three weeks have been amazing with the whole group coming together, but I have been on this...
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Social drinking in a chinese karaoke (Photo: Tom McDonald) It is 11:42 on a Tuesday night, in the height of Red Mountain Town summer, and I find myself standing in a darkened, noisy and stifling,...
View ArticleDoing stuff, and telling people about it
Photo by ehnmark (Creative Commons) Ok, this is a seriously big project. Starting from today, there will be eight simultenous 15-month ethnographies taking place in fieldsites around the world. To have...
View ArticleFacebook for fitness: a case study from India
Photo by Bharfot (Creative Commons) The following is a case study of a fitness enthusiast (a small business owner as well – owns a gym) in our Indian fieldsite who shares his passion for body building...
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