Comments on: Mass-Observation

By: poly c

poly c — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 13:23:34 +0000

I just saw a documentary about Mass Observation by Rebecca Baron: How Little We Know of Our Neighbors. It talks a lot about Harrisson and has interviews with Jennings, but also explores - via camerawork - the idea of mass observation and home anthropology, as well as talking about the technologies that made it possible.

By: MichaelB

MichaelB — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 15:15:46 +0000

Thanks, Kerim. You hooked me with this one! Harrisson’s biography joins the to-read pile as soon as it arrives. This dates me, I guess, but I sometimes miss the era of gonzo ethnography. Are there any anthros in this league today?

By: An eccentric anthropologist « Entertaining Research

An eccentric anthropologist « Entertaining Research — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 07:59:04 +0000

[…] An eccentric anthropologist Via Kerim at Savage minds I eneded up at the YouTube videos of a BBC documentary of Tom Harrisson; the instrument at the 5:21 minutes in the fifth part of the documentary looks very similar to (and sounded very similar to) morsing. In any case, it is a documentary worth watching. I also want to check the biography of Harrisson that Kerim refers to in his post. […]