ANTH 2160 Lecture : February 27th 2012.docx

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 2160
• Professor: D Rose

Document Summary

But if what makes virtual worlds worlds is that they are places, what makes them sites of culture and thus amenable to ethnographic investigation is that people interact in them. (180) In the essay (by rose) the men discussing the treasure hidden by their ancestors are connecting themselves to their ancestors and including themselves in that community by storytelling. Community membership comes in many forms; physical places like uofg, and also in non-physical terms like lgbt groupscommunities can but do not always have places associated with them in the actual world and also in virtual worlds. People are critical of online worlds and feel as though they re less authentic/ real . They base community on face-to-face interactions even though there are plenty of real world examples where community membership doesn t include face to face discussion all the time.