Samuel Gerald Collins
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 74804 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Samuel Gerald Collins |
| PRENOMES | Samuel Gerald |
| SOBRENOME | Collins |
| ASSINATURA | COLLINS S G |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Towson University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8264-6080 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 40 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 137 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 39 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1996 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
A World Made Safe for (Future) Difference
In her 1946 book, The Chrysanthemum and the Sword, Ruth Benedict famously contrasts policy that leads to a “world made safe for difference” with policy that insists on the universality of human culture. While many have utilized this passage to underscore the urgency of anthropology in a violent and intolerant world, it also suggests the uneasy essentialism of her approach, one where culture is ambiguously shared among denizens of the nation-state…
All Tomorrow's Cultures
The first edition of All Tomorrow’s Cultures explored the legacy of futures-thinking in anthropology and marked the beginning of a resurgence of interest in anthropological futures. The new edition has been updated to reflect some of the outpouring of work since then, particularly in science and technology studies and in anthropological analyses of indigenous futures. In addition, Collins has updated the final chapter to expand the field of anthr…
Games and Public Anthropology
Multimodal anthropologists are using games and game design as a method for producing ethnographic knowledge collaboratively with research participants and as a genre for communicating anthropological knowledge with varied publics. As a methodological approach and a rhetorical genre, games offer unique affordances in that they highlight the dynamic interplay of structures, systems, rules, and norms on the one hand, and contingency, interaction, an…
Chapter 1. Anthropological Time Machines
All Tomorrow's Cultures
The first edition of All Tomorrow’s Cultures explored the legacy of futures-thinking in anthropology and marked the beginning of a resurgence of interest in anthropological futures. The new edition has been updated to reflect some of the outpouring of work since then, particularly in science and technology studies and in anthropological analyses of indigenous futures. In addition, Collins has updated the final chapter to expand the field of anthr…
Work, Love, and Learning in Utopia
Generally, anthropologists are not thought of as contributing to utopian thought and, really, there are few anthropological monographs or articles with even the word “utopia” (or “dystopia”) in the title (but see Savannah Shange’s Progressive Dystopia). As the late anthropological futurist Robert Textor pointed out, this is due to earlier orientations: cultural evolutionism and culture history in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and …
The Uncertain Present and the Multimodal Future
The Anthropology of the Future by Rebecca Bryant and Daniel M. Knight
Reviewed by: The Anthropology of the Future by Rebecca Bryant and Daniel M. Knight Samuel Gerald Collins Rebecca Bryant and Daniel M. Knight, The Anthropology of the Future. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019. 236 pp. Rebecca Bryant and Daniel M. Knight, The Anthropology of the Future. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019. 236 pp. Anthropology has had an ambiguous relationship with the future. In a 1935 essay, A. L. Kroeber located …
Social Media
Since its meteoric rise in the twenty‐first century, social media have been a source of both attraction and consternation to anthropologists. While they constitute a growing part of their interlocutors' lives, social media also pose ethical dilemmas both for anthropologists and for the communities in which they work. And yet, for good or for ill, the work of anthropology is marketed, reviewed, and discussed on social media: It is an unavoidable p…
Multimodality
Multimodality describes anthropological research through different media and along different platforms, including social media. Although anthropological work has involved multimodal forms from the beginnings of the discipline, multimodality has typically been pushed to the margins, with anthropologists achieving academic success only to the extent that they were able to produce academic monographs and journal articles in addition to their multimo…
Conference Review
AnthropologyCon 2017 transpired across multiple sites at the annual American Anthropology Association meeting in Washington, DC. The first event included a workshop on “Anthropology of/through Games” on Thursday afternoon, November 30, where participants learned about, brainstormed on, designed, and prototyped table-top games under the tutelage of Dr. Anatasia Salter, a game designer and games scholar from the University of Central Florida. In th…
Futures, intimacies, animisms
This essay explores recent work in future-oriented anthropology that develops emancipatory, anticipatory, multi-modal, and participatory approaches. Through critiquing hegemonic assumptions in anthropology and in Western modernity, these works evoke both present complexity and future potentiality. Ultimately, the essay explores these works as redemptive strategies for an anthropology besieged by intolerance and authoritarianism while grappling wi…
Working for the Robocracy
Ethnographic Apps/Apps as Ethnography
Today, people nearly everywhere are experiencing multiple events through the medium of mobile apps: Social networking platforms, such as Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, are now accessed through sm
Push It Along
Perhaps the most demonized group following the uprising that occurred after the death of Freddie Gray in Baltimore were the youth of the city. As ethnographers working in the same neighborhoods where the Baltimore Uprising took place, we debated the representations we would make, cognizant that, in an atmosphere of both overt and covert racism, any representation we produced would be subject to political appropriation from the same mass media we …
Multimodality
This section used to be called Visual Anthropology. Its new name-Multimodal Anthropologies-reflects \nchanges in the media ecologies we engage as anthropologists, changes that have broadened our perspective to \ninclude other forms of media practice, while remaining inclusive of visual anthropology. Many of these \nchanges can be linked to three developments: (1) the (relative) democratization and integration of media \nproduction; (2) the shift …
Common Knowledge? An Ethnography of Wikipedia by DariuszJemielniak. Stanford, CA
Baltimore Steel Stories
The article offers information on the efforts to chronicle the economic and personal changes people have endured in Baltimore, Maryland, to make sense of their lives and represent the contradictions of capitalism which resulted in the media project entitled "Anthropology by the Wire." Topics include the fallout from the closure of one of the last remaining steel plants in the U.S., the contradictions within capitalist logic, and the structural vi…
Networked Spirits and Smart Séances
2015 has been declared the year of the “Internet of Things”, the promised (or threatened) era when our commodities communicate among themselves. But even the most optimistic prognostications cannot conceal deep ambivalences about objects and agency. How do we think about our things when they communicate and act independently of us? How do we frame our relationships with them? How do we articulate distributed intelligence? And how are others imbri…
Conclusion
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book presents two projects that represent future directions for our networked anthropology, highlighting the complex translations that our work takes as it engages the world through diverse encounters and collaborations. Both suggest certain directions that networked anthropology might take and both suggest an increasing distance b…
Networked Anthropology
Introduction: What is Networked Anthropology? 1. Anthropology Confronts a Networked World 2. Networked Ecologies 3. Towards a Networked Ethics 4. Moving from Visual Anthropology to Networked Anthropology 5. Case Study 1: Sharp Leadenhall 6. Case Study 2: JACQUES Conclusion: Tomorrow's Networks ACTIVITIES (Pre-Field, The Networked Field, Recursive Analysis
Tagging Culture
Multimedia challenges our understanding of what a public anthropology should do or can be. For our students and for communities with whom we work, the world exists to be recorded, shared, and distributed: social media is testament to this documentary Zeitgeist. How do we take a community's interest in these tools and forge a partnership that is both socially beneficial and rigorous? While the tools and the desire to undertake multimedia anthropol…
Cutting loose in the fun palace
Train to Pyongyang
This essay is motivated by the seeming contradiction that Korean unification is sought after by most Koreans yet speculations about the social and cultural changes it might bring are almost absent. This may be because Korean unification denotes a series of differences contrasted to the present—because it is a potent “master symbol” with one foot in utopian speculation and the other in policy studies. In this essay, I outline some of the complexit…
Reconnecting to the Patterns That Connect
Additional informationNotes on contributorsSamuel Gerald CollinsSamuel Gerald Collins is professor of anthropology at Towson University in Baltimore, Maryland, where he teaches and studies information society and globalization
Multimodality
This section used to be called Visual Anthropology. Its new name-Multimodal Anthropologies-reflects \nchanges in the media ecologies we engage as anthropologists, changes that have broadened our perspective to \ninclude other forms of media practice, while remaining inclusive of visual anthropology. Many of these \nchanges can be linked to three developments: (1) the (relative) democratization and integration of media \nproduction; (2) the shift …
Networked Anthropology
Introduction: What is Networked Anthropology? 1. Anthropology Confronts a Networked World 2. Networked Ecologies 3. Towards a Networked Ethics 4. Moving from Visual Anthropology to Networked Anthropology 5. Case Study 1: Sharp Leadenhall 6. Case Study 2: JACQUES Conclusion: Tomorrow's Networks ACTIVITIES (Pre-Field, The Networked Field, Recursive Analysis
Ethnographic Apps/Apps as Ethnography
Today, people nearly everywhere are experiencing multiple events through the medium of mobile apps: Social networking platforms, such as Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, are now accessed through sm
Networked Spirits and Smart Séances
2015 has been declared the year of the “Internet of Things”, the promised (or threatened) era when our commodities communicate among themselves. But even the most optimistic prognostications cannot conceal deep ambivalences about objects and agency. How do we think about our things when they communicate and act independently of us? How do we frame our relationships with them? How do we articulate distributed intelligence? And how are others imbri…
Circulating Nationalism in the Age of the Korean Wave
Consistently in the top five of OECD nations in rates of study abroad, South Koreans are at the vanguard of crafting neoliberal identities often characterized as “post-national.” And yet, in other ways Korean overseas education results in a heightened sense of national/ethnic identity, an identity that both echoes past attributes of Korean identity and traces the outlines of future nationalisms. This essay uses interviews, observation and publish…
The Uncertain Present and the Multimodal Future
Working for the Robocracy
No Anthropologist Aboard the Enterprise
Sail On! Sail On
Anthropologists have long been interested in the future and, as a result, anthropology and science fiction share certain understandings about culture and society. Rather than concentrate on anthropological science fiction, this essay loolcs to the ways professional anthropologists have utilized sf in the years following World War II; it critiques the cybernetic-functionalist assumptions that underlie their visions of possible futures. By construc…
Push It Along
Perhaps the most demonized group following the uprising that occurred after the death of Freddie Gray in Baltimore were the youth of the city. As ethnographers working in the same neighborhoods where the Baltimore Uprising took place, we debated the representations we would make, cognizant that, in an atmosphere of both overt and covert racism, any representation we produced would be subject to political appropriation from the same mass media we …
"Head out on the highway"
Working Knowledge
Nuclear Rites:. Weapons Laboratory at the End of the Cold War Hugh Gusterson. Berkeley: University of California Press,1996Flexible Bodies: Tracking Immunity in American Culture-From the Days of Polio to the Age of AIDS Emily Martin. Boston: Beacon Press,1994Beamtimes and Lifetimes: The World of High Energy Physicists Sharon Traweek. Cambridge: Harvard University Press,1988
Globalization and South Korea's Middle Class
Making Capitalism: The Social and Cultural Construction of a South Korean Conglomerate Janelli, Roger L., and Dawnhee Yim. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1993.In Pursuit of Status: The Making of South Korea's "New" Urban Middle Class Denise Potrzeba Lett. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998
Information and the Paradox of Perspicuity
Postmodern Culture - Volume 12, Number 3, May 2002
Sail On! Sail On
Anthropologists have long been interested in the future and, as a result, anthropology and science fiction share certain understandings about culture and society. Rather than concentrate on anthropological science fiction, this essay loolcs to the ways professional anthropologists have utilized sf in the years following World War II; it critiques the cybernetic-functionalist assumptions that underlie their visions of possible futures. By construc…
Scientifically Valid and Artistically True
Chad Oliver (1928-1993) is one of several writers credited with developing the subgenre of anthropological science fiction. Unlike other sf authors identified as members of this group, such as Ursula K. Le Guin, Oliver was also a practicing anthropologist, serving as chair of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Texas for almost two decades, with research interests in Native Americans and pastoralism in Kenya. Although Oliver saw h…
‘Who's this Tong‐il ?’
Many supporters and critics of a ‘global English’ assume that English is (initially) ‘outside’ of cultures in what Braj Kachru calls the ‘Expanding Circle’. But this ignores the ways English has been culturally and historically constituted in countries where it is still a ‘foreign’ language. In South Korea, English education—as an institution—has been part of Korean life since the 1880s. During that time, English has acquired a variety of contrad…
Society for the Anthropology of Work
No Anthropologist Aboard the Enterprise
Le Temps Perdu
Le Temps Perdu:Anthropologists (Re)discover the Future Samuel Gerald Collins Debbora Battaglia , ed., E.T. Culture: Anthropology in Outerspaces. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005. Margaret Mead , The World Ahead: An Anthropologist Anticipates the Future (The Study of Contemporary Western Cultures, Vol. 6), ed. by Robert B. Textor. New York: Berghahn Books, 2005. Daniel Rosenberg and Susan Harding , eds., Histories of the Future. Durham, NC:…
Handbook of Research on Agent-Based Societies
"This volume addresses a variety of issues, in particular the emergence of societal phenomena in the interactions of systems of agents (software, robot or human)"--Provided by publisher
Fiddling with Le Guin
Circulating Nationalism in the Age of the Korean Wave
Consistently in the top five of OECD nations in rates of study abroad, South Koreans are at the vanguard of crafting neoliberal identities often characterized as “post-national.” And yet, in other ways Korean overseas education results in a heightened sense of national/ethnic identity, an identity that both echoes past attributes of Korean identity and traces the outlines of future nationalisms. This essay uses interviews, observation and publish…
Will the Last Good Job Please Turn Off the Lights? Academic Responses to the Exploitation of Graduate Student Workers
Shamans, Nostalgias, and the IMF
Reconnecting to the Patterns That Connect
Additional informationNotes on contributorsSamuel Gerald CollinsSamuel Gerald Collins is professor of anthropology at Towson University in Baltimore, Maryland, where he teaches and studies information society and globalization
Tagging Culture
Multimedia challenges our understanding of what a public anthropology should do or can be. For our students and for communities with whom we work, the world exists to be recorded, shared, and distributed: social media is testament to this documentary Zeitgeist. How do we take a community's interest in these tools and forge a partnership that is both socially beneficial and rigorous? While the tools and the desire to undertake multimedia anthropol…
Cutting loose in the fun palace
Train to Pyongyang
This essay is motivated by the seeming contradiction that Korean unification is sought after by most Koreans yet speculations about the social and cultural changes it might bring are almost absent. This may be because Korean unification denotes a series of differences contrasted to the present—because it is a potent “master symbol” with one foot in utopian speculation and the other in policy studies. In this essay, I outline some of the complexit…
Conclusion
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book presents two projects that represent future directions for our networked anthropology, highlighting the complex translations that our work takes as it engages the world through diverse encounters and collaborations. Both suggest certain directions that networked anthropology might take and both suggest an increasing distance b…
Networked Anthropology
Introduction: What is Networked Anthropology? 1. Anthropology Confronts a Networked World 2. Networked Ecologies 3. Towards a Networked Ethics 4. Moving from Visual Anthropology to Networked Anthropology 5. Case Study 1: Sharp Leadenhall 6. Case Study 2: JACQUES Conclusion: Tomorrow's Networks ACTIVITIES (Pre-Field, The Networked Field, Recursive Analysis
Common Knowledge? An Ethnography of Wikipedia by DariuszJemielniak. Stanford, CA
Baltimore Steel Stories
The article offers information on the efforts to chronicle the economic and personal changes people have endured in Baltimore, Maryland, to make sense of their lives and represent the contradictions of capitalism which resulted in the media project entitled "Anthropology by the Wire." Topics include the fallout from the closure of one of the last remaining steel plants in the U.S., the contradictions within capitalist logic, and the structural vi…
Networked Spirits and Smart Séances
2015 has been declared the year of the “Internet of Things”, the promised (or threatened) era when our commodities communicate among themselves. But even the most optimistic prognostications cannot conceal deep ambivalences about objects and agency. How do we think about our things when they communicate and act independently of us? How do we frame our relationships with them? How do we articulate distributed intelligence? And how are others imbri…
Ethnographic Apps/Apps as Ethnography
Today, people nearly everywhere are experiencing multiple events through the medium of mobile apps: Social networking platforms, such as Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, are now accessed through sm
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