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Coming of age in Second Life : an anthropologist explores the virtually human / Tom Boellstorff.
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Boellstorff, Tom, 1969-
- Series:
- Anthropology online.
- Anthropology online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ethnology--Interactive multimedia.
- Ethnology.
- Ethnology--Computer network resources.
- Ethnology--Fieldwork.
- Internet.
- Second Life (Game).
- Virtual reality.
- Genre:
- Interactive multimedia.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 316 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2008]
- Language Note:
- This edition in English.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- "Tom Boellstorff conducted more than two years of fieldwork in Second Life, living among and observing its residents in the same way anthropologists traditionally have done to learn about cultures and social groups in the so-called real world. He applied the methods of anthropology to study many facets of this new frontier of human life, including issues of gender, race, sex, money, conflict and antisocial behavior, the construction of place and time, and the interplay of self and group."-- Original book jacket.
- Contents:
- pt. I: Setting the virtual stage
- The subject and scope of this inquiry
- History
- Method
- pt. II: Culture in a virtual world
- Place and time
- Personhood
- Intimacy
- Community
- pt. III: The age of techne
- Political economy
- The virtual.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [271]-301) and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2012. (Anthropology online). Available via World Wide Web.
- OCLC:
- 439022828
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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