Hi I’m Alex Golub—Rex to my friends. I’m a recent graduate of the anthropology department at the University of Chicago and am currently an adjunct assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Hawai’i Manoa here in Honolulu. My dissertation was on mining and indigenous people in highlands Papua New Guinea. My second project focuses on personhood and property relations in massively multiplayer online role playing games—most likely Dark Ages of Camelot and Second Life.
My home page is over at http://alex.golub.name/. My blog is there, and I also run a site on digital genres.
Here’s a picture of me:
I know, I know – it’s not cool to put a picture of yourself on your website unless it is really blurry and no one can see what you really look like. But this picture – for which Debby gets all the credit – just came out so well that I couldn’t resist. Taken outside my house in PNG during a welcome mumu for Debby (hence the bilas), I take a few moments out from the busy day of killing pigs and cooking sweet potato to double-check what exactly a communications-theoretic formulation of the lifeworld would entail. The Kings jersey indicates my alleigance to my home town. The marsupial fur, ferns, headband, plumage, facepaint, bow and arrows are all more or less what Porgerans wear when they are feeling nostalgic for the good old days.
