Dear all,

We have a small but burgeoning group here at PopAnth. To stimulate community development, I thought that it might be useful for us to introduce who we are, why we're interested in popular anthropology, and whether we do any popular anthropology ourselves. So, please feel free to chime in!

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I'll go first to get the ball rolling. I'm an Australian cultural anthropologist, doing a research-only postdoc at the University of Lisbon, Portugal. I began this group because I wanted to get a sense of how widespread cultural anthropology is. Thus far I've learned that we've got nothing on popular science. I publish publicly-accessible descriptions of my own research on my personal website, and I help run the popular anthropology website PopAnth: Hot Buttered Humanity. Nice to meet you all.

My name is John and I am an anthropologist. In 1969-71 my wife and I did the fieldwork that resulted in my dissertation on the symbolism of popular Daoist magic. In 1980 I was unemployed and followed my wife to Japan, where connections provided bygone of her colleagues got me into the fringes of the Japanese advertising world. From 1983 to 1996 I was employed as a copywriter and creative director my Hakuhodo Inc, Japan's second largest advertising agency. From 1994 to 2004 I also taught seminars on "The Making and Meaning of Advertising" and "Marketing in Japan" in the Graduate Program In Comparative Culture at Sophia University in Tokyo. Since 1996 I and my wife have been partners in The Word Works, Ltd., suppliers of fine translation and writing services to mainly Japanese clients. Having returned to my academic interests as an independent scholar around 1990, I have since published one book and several journal articles and/or chapters in edited volumes. I a active on OAC, PopAnth, and Savage Minds because you, dear readers, are my virtual college. I learn from you what's going on in our unruly discipline, have been pointed to many interesting books, and made a few good friends here.

I'm Daniel.  Most of you probably know me from the Neuroanthropology blog, which I run in conjunction with my colleague Greg Downey.  For the broader story, I'm an anthropologist interested in three areas: (a) more holistic work in anthropology, with a focus on biocultural stuff; (b) the integration of neuroscience and anthropology, particularly to understand "brains in the wild" - our human diversity - using that integrative approach, and (c) the intersection of anthropology with public and applied work/impact.  I did my graduate work at Emory, my field work in Colombia, and presently work at the University of South Florida.

I am joining this conversation a little late, but hopefully it'll keep it going and encourage more people to join in!

My name is Marie-Pierre, I study socio-cultural anthropology in Laval University in Quebec city. I am writing a master's memoir on a international indigenous healing movement, with a focus on identity and reconciliation. I am planning to pursue studies on reconciliation process during my PhD studies.

My interests include popular culture (particularly geek culture), native studies and gender studies. I am also fascinated by the anthropology of the body and the senses  and I try to stay informed specifically about trends and schools of thought about esthetism and physical well-being (application of make-up, beauty and health ritual, etc.).

I run a blog called The Geek Anthropologist. I started working on it fairly recently (last September) and am aiming at eventually turning it into a community of authors interested in the anthropological study of science-fiction, geek culture and identity, online communities, video games, and other topics related to geekdom, be it the interests of geeks or the geeks themselves. (http://thegeekanthropologist.com/)

I look forward to exchanging with members of this group about common interests!

Hi Marie-Pierre,

Thanks for joining in! Your blog sounds like an awesome idea.I firmly support your cause of geekdom! Could we perhaps tempt you to publish an article on the PopAnth website? That way, your blog might come to the attention of like-minded authors who would be interested in working with you, as well as more readers of course. Cross-fertilization is brilliant for getting our stuff out there.

Cheers

Erin

Hi everybody, Peter here, in New Zealand.

I am an undergad student, majoring in anthropology. I am a ‘very’ mature student, with three successful careers behind me, in telecoms, IT and natural health. I have now almost completed two-thirds of the anthropology part of my degree, so now consider myself to be an anthropologist. I am currently writing my research proposal, as part of a “Practice of “Fieldwork” course.

My interests include medical anthropology and also the social science of the emerging 21st century activist movement, especially in regard to the use of social media as a tool in activism, (as used in the “Arab Spring”, etc), and I am currently heavily involved in the use of Facebook as an activist tool here in New Zealand.

My research proposal is for a project that studies an intersection of medical anthropology and activism, especially social media activism. I will post a copy of the abstract here in this group.

I am also very interested in the work of the two great French 20th Century intellectuals, Foucault and Bourdieu, and intend to do some original work in applying some of their theories to the field of 21st century activism for social change, especially in issues of a general ‘medical’ nature. I have also been heavily influenced by the work of the cultural historian, Morris Berman, and I will have more to say about this later.

I am also a writer, and am currently working to improve the writing skills that I will need in order to write really excellent ethnography. Clifford Geertz is my personal hero and model in regard to that; although I also recently studied Susan Krieger’s “Mirror Dance”, and am very drawn to that style of highly reflexive writing, that includes an element of auto-ethnography.

You guys have some very interesting things going here, though I note that interest seems to have waned now, so let’s see if we can now revive interest in this group!

Hi, Peter, welcome aboard. Step one is to take a look at what is already up on PopAnth and tell us what you think could be improved.

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