John McCreery's Blog – January 2011 Archive (2)

Powerful things

While very much enjoying the seminar on Martin Holbraad's paper "Can the thing speak?" I have been wishing that we had a bit more ethnographic data to discuss. This link will take you to a set of photographs taken in 1970, during my first fieldwork in Taiwan. In them you will see critical moments in the ritual by which…

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Added by John McCreery on January 25, 2011 at 9:00am — 2 Comments

Winners' Circles

It has been three years since I began work on my current research project, Winners' Circles. The PDF attached to this blog post (ZhengZhiUPresentation%20%28OAC%29.pdf) shows where I was a bit over a year ago when I gave a talk about the project at Zhengzhi University in Taipei. Since then I have had a few more ideas about the social network analysis that is driving my…

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Added by John McCreery on January 4, 2011 at 8:30am — 3 Comments