California Quail: My "Naked Harbin" ethnography engages anthropological theory in the following ways, Google Earth/Maps added my photo of the Harbin gate here which I had added as an experiment in ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy, and it worked, Now how can academics in all disciplines - e.g. Archaeologists / Anthropologists / Marine Biologists etc., begin to add their unique data, photos and video footage etc. decade by decade?

Dear Bill,

Thanks very much - and especially to be a reviewer for an academic press, since you've visited Harbin and are a Professor of Anthropology. I'll bring my full 147,000 word ethnographic manuscript to completion.

My "Naked Harbin" ethnography engages anthropological theory in the following ways:

1) comes into direct conversation, carefully and in a scholarly way, with Boellstorff's "Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human" (Princeton 2008), as method and as theory (and I appreciate Boellstorff's approaches to anthropological theory in his book);

2) examines in innovative ways how the making of a field site for actual / virtual comparison might contribute to developments in anthropological theory;

3) engages anthropological field theory in terms of field work, field site, place and the virtual e.g. "multi-sited ethnography" (Ferguson and Gupta);

4) posits a new addition to anthropological theory, something I'm calling "ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy" - See, too a recent outline to the Berghahn Press about this and "Naked Harbin" and related anthropological literature here -
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/07/syzygium-harbin-hot-springs-book.html;


Check out visiting the Harbin Gate here in Google Earth/Maps -

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Harbin+Hot+Springs/@38.7859623,-122.6519129,3a,75y,3.07h,90t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sZvCvdrcS5wPenGS_nB4JtA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0xde57c3ab0ecaa2c9!6m1!1e1

- and while you can't go into Harbin here, "walk" down the Harbin road to Middletown. Google Earth/Maps will likely become my field site for my next Harbin book as it develops.

Thank you again for your correspondence.

Best,

Scott



On 8/20/15 7:27 AM, William Beeman wrote:

Dear Scott, I would be happy to review the manuscript for any press that is interested. Let me suggest that you continue to work on a full manuscript. For academic presses, a strong tie to anthropological theory will be essential.

Best,

Bill

William O. Beeman Professor and Chair, Department of Anthropology
University of Minnesota 395 HHH Center 301 19th Avenue S.
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baby Philippine flying lemur with mother (Cynocephalus volans): Might Google Earth as virtual world become a new kind of BOOK, a wiki-book even, in the future?, Dovetailing with a) a WUaS Academic Press in all 7,929+ languages, b) an universal translator in same languages, and c) selling this in the all languages' WUaS bookstore ... and d) a virtual Earth/Harbin as unfolding wiki 2nd Harbin book, New developments at Google Books: Partner Program and the Library Project, I'd also like to explore publishing "Naked Harbin" in the upcoming Academic Press at WUaS planned for all languages ... as well as anticipating a universal translator ... as well as anticipating a 2nd Harbin book, and even a new form of a book based on what I'm calling "ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy" and in relation to developing comparative actual-virtual field work at Harbin on-the-ground and in a developing Google Earth virtual world