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INTRODUCTION TO ANTHROPOLOGY

Choose  one  of  the  five  following  topics  that  most  interests  you  for  a  semester-‐

Long project  in  three  parts  worth  45%  of  your  overall  grade.  

PART ONE

 of  the  project  will  be  an  ETHNOGRAPHIC  CRITICAL  REVIEW  of  the  book  suggested  

15% of your grade.  3-4  page. You have to read and answer this project from the book “coming of AGE in second life”.

Topic: :  THE  INTERNET  AND  VIRTUAL  culture Coming  of  Age  in  Second  Life:  An  Anthropologist  Explores  the  Virtually  

Human. Tom Boellstorff.  2010.  Princeton  University  P.

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

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the  possibilities  are  endless,  and  all  

encountered  through  a  computer  screen.  Tom  Boellstorff  conducted  more  than  two  years  of  fieldwork  in  

Second  Life,  living  amo

ng  and  observing  its  residents  in  exactly  the  same  way  anthropologists  traditionally  

have  done  to  learn  about  cultures  and  social  groups  in  the  so

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called  real  world.  

Coming  of  Age  in  Second. Life shows how virtual worlds can change ideas about identity and

society.

PART  TWO:  

What  are  contemporary  directions  in  research  regarding  internet  groups  as culture?

PART THREE:

How is a sense of community created in the absence of physical interaction?

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