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  • Ethnography and Virtual Worlds

    A Handbook of Method, Updated Edition

    by Tom Boellstorff, Bonnie Nardi, Celia Pearce, T. L. Taylor ...
    A practical guide to the ethnographic study of online cultures, and beyondEthnography and Virtual Worlds is the only book of its kind—a concise, comprehensive, and practical guide for students, teachers, designers, and scholars interested in using ethnographic methods to study online virtual worlds, including both game and nongame environments. Written by leading ethnographers of virtual worlds, ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Intellivision

    How a Videogame System Battled Atari and Almost Bankrupted Barbie®

    by Tom Boellstorff, Braxton Soderman ...
    Series series Platform Studies
    The engaging story of Intellivision, an overlooked videogame system from the late 1970s and early 1980s whose fate was shaped by Mattel, Atari, and countless others who invented the gaming industry.Astrosmash, Snafu, Star Strike, Utopia—do these names sound familiar to you? No? Maybe? They were all videogames created for the Intellivision videogame system, sold by Mattel Electronics between 1979 ... Read more

    $63.99 CAD

  • Coming of Age in Second Life

    An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human

    by Tom Boellstorff, Tom Boellstorff ...
    Millions of people around the world today spend portions of their lives in online virtual worlds. Second Life is one of the largest of these virtual worlds. The residents of Second Life create communities, buy property and build homes, go to concerts, meet in bars, attend weddings and religious services, buy and sell virtual goods and services, find friendship, fall in love--the possibilities are ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • A Coincidence of Desires

    Anthropology, Queer Studies, Indonesia

    by Tom Boellstorff ...
    In A Coincidence of Desires, Tom Boellstorff considers how interdisciplinary collaboration between anthropology and queer studies might enrich both fields. For more than a decade he has visited Indonesia, both as an anthropologist exploring gender and sexuality and as an activist involved in HIV prevention work. Drawing on these experiences, he provides several in-depth case studies, primarily ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • The Gay Archipelago

    Sexuality and Nation in Indonesia

    by Tom Boellstorff ...
    The Gay Archipelago is the first book-length exploration of the lives of gay men in Indonesia, the world's fourth most populous nation and home to more Muslims than any other country. Based on a range of field methods, it explores how Indonesian gay and lesbian identities are shaped by nationalism and globalization. Yet the case of gay and lesbian Indonesians also compels us to ask more ... Read more

    $56.99 CAD

  • How to Get Published in Anthropology

    A Guide for Students and Young Professionals

    by Jason E. Miller, Oona Schmid, Catherine Besteman, Peter Biella, Tom Boellstorff, Don Brenneis, Paul N. Edwards, Paul A. Garber, Linda Forman, Ricky S. Huard, Hugh W. Jarvis, John Kevin Trainor, James M. Wallace, Cecilia Vindrola-Padros, Mary Bucholtz, Peter Givler, William Green ...
    This one-stop guide to getting published in anthropology gives graduate students and young professionals the crucial information and tools they need to tackle the all-important requirement to publish. Part I provides step-by-step guidance on key efforts that budding anthropologists can benefit from, including organizing a conference panel, creating a poster, presenting a paper, getting an article ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD

  • Communities of Play

    Emergent Cultures in Multiplayer Games and Virtual Worlds

    by Celia Pearce ...
    The odyssey of a group of “refugees” from a closed-down online game and an exploration of emergent fan cultures in virtual worlds.Play communities existed long before massively multiplayer online games; they have ranged from bridge clubs to sports leagues, from tabletop role-playing games to Civil War reenactments. With the emergence of digital networks, however, new varieties of adult play ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Mapping Feminist Anthropology in the Twenty-First Century

    by A. Lynn Bolles, Matthew R. Dudgeon, Meena Rani Khandelwal, Catherine Kingfisher, Elise A. Kramer, Lynn Kwiatkowski0, Louise Lamphere1, Frances Mascia-Lees2, Rayna Rapp3, Margot Weiss4, Elizabeth F. S. Roberts5, Kimberly Theidon6 ...
    Feminist anthropology emerged in the 1970s as a much-needed corrective to the discipline’s androcentric biases. Far from being a marginalized subfield, it has been at the forefront of developments that have revolutionized not only anthropology, but also a host of other disciplines. This landmark collection of essays provides a contemporary overview of feminist anthropology’s historical and ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD