{"id":20,"date":"2006-01-05T13:26:20","date_gmt":"2006-01-05T11:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/2006\/01\/05\/reading-a-few-classics-now\/"},"modified":"2009-09-08T13:37:04","modified_gmt":"2009-09-08T11:37:04","slug":"reading-a-few-classics-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/2006\/01\/05\/reading-a-few-classics-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading a few classics now&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have recently bought a bunch of anthropological classics, works written by well known anthropological oldies. These works I consider interesting for my research, because they introduce and elaborate concepts I think can be usefully applied &#8211; in moderated form perhaps &#8211; to the use of new technologies. Not only that, I think using older concepts and theories balance the tendency to see current (technological) developments as &#8220;radically new&#8221; and &#8220;revolutionary&#8221;, a &#8220;complete breach from everything we ever knew before&#8221;. Utter rubbish of course, most would agree \ud83d\ude00 Yet still the tendency is there to over-stress the newness of it all. Using older thoughts can counterbalance this a bit, I think.<\/p>\n<p>Some titles:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Arnold van Gennep &#8211; The Rites of Passage (originally published in 1908; useful because of its focus on socio-cultural change and the concept of liminality)<\/li>\n<li>Marcel Mauss &#8211; The Gift (orig. 1950; useful because gifts are a cultural\/economic way of bonding, based on reciprocity. This, I believe, can be applied to the way people nowadays exchange SMS text messages, and little phone calls &#8217;bout nothing&#8217;)<\/li>\n<li>Victor Turner &#8211; From Ritual to Theatre: the human seriousness of play (1982; Turner has written a lot on ritual. The exploration of playfulness in culture is useful for our topic &#8216;Playful Identities&#8217;)<\/li>\n<li>Mary Douglas &#8211; Natural symbols : explorations in cosmology (1970; Douglas also wrote a classic about purity and danger and taboo)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I also intend to read (or at least look into) a Dutch translation of Claude L\u00e9vi-Strauss&#8217; &#8216;Tristes Tropiques&#8217; my colleague Bibi gave me. Lots to read still in my own field, let alone beyond the boundaries of anthropology&#8230; :\/<\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have recently bought a bunch of anthropological classics, works written by well known anthropological oldies. These works I consider interesting for my research, because [&hellip;] <span class=\"read-more-link\"><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/2006\/01\/05\/reading-a-few-classics-now\/\">Read More<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[1,4],"tags":[96,93],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-research-ideas","tag-anthropology","tag-update"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peQgW-k","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":412,"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions\/412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}