ANTH245

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ANTH 245 -- The Anthropology of the Information Society

Professor Rafael Alvarado

STUDENTS: Please use Blackboard to access course information. This site is available through Blackboard as well.

Fall 2007

Lectures

Sep 10 -- Rappaport

Sep 17 -- Structuralism

Sep 24 -- QDA

Oct 01 -- Ethnography

Oct 08 -- Postmodernism

Oct 22 -- Databasification

Oct 29 -- Virtual Community

Readings

Note to students: this section is experimental; please do not use these for your readings at this point.

Biggs, 1986, "Cybernetics in a Post-structuralist Landscape"

Forsythe, 1993, "The Construction of Work in Artificial Intelligence"

Frankfort, 1986, "On Bullshit"

Levi-Strauss, 1951, "Language and the Analysis of Social Laws"

Levi-Strauss, 1955, "The Structural Study of Myth"

Lyotard, 1979, "The Postmodern Condition"

Manovich, 2001, "Database as Symbolic Form"

McGann, 2004, "A Note on the Current State of Humanities Scholarship"

Suchman, 1988, "Representing Practice in Cognitive Science"

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