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Scott MacLeod's
New Naked Harbin

Ethnography Book
415 480 4577

Naked Harbin Ethnography: 
Hippies, Warm Pools, Counterculture, Clothing-Optionality & Virtual Harbin

Academic Press at World University and School

http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html

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Dear Readers:

After you check in at the Gate at Harbin, one resident who has worked there for years often says, "Go Play," 

This ethnography of Harbin Hot Springs, a kind of Hippies-to-the-Hot-Springs' Eden project in northern California, explicitly and theoretically brings together approaches to the comparative study of both the actual and virtual, by developing a new methodology in studying Harbin - as a kind of hippy or alternative haven from modernity.

Through this anthropological book and conceiving of virtual Harbin, you can begin not only to "Be There" - to visit Harbin virtually in the text, as it were - but also to revisit the 1960s and its related freedom-seeking movements.

Moreover, Harbin Hot Springs' clothing-optionality, spirituality and alternative culture are attractive in mysterious ways.

In the way that Margaret Mead's work was theoretical and gained widespread attention at the same time, this book will appeal due to the broad interest in emerging interactive virtual worlds, as well as due to 1960's informed alternative Harbin's exotic, yet familiar attractiveness, now mediated digitally.

As information technologies and wondrous developments like virtual worlds continue to develop rapidly, I hope to engage you, the Reader, further in the conversation about the creativity in countercultural thinking, in virtual worlds, in comparative ethnography, and in the experiences of interacting in this virtual Harbin, even as visitors to actual Harbin enjoy visiting this Hot Springs' retreat center.

Namaste & thank you, Scott

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About Ethno-Wiki-Virtual-World-Graphy, as new anthropological method:

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy

See too this related NEW "Naked Harbin Book" blog post:

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/08/siganus-puellus-naked-harbin-new.html

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The Making of Virtual Harbin Hot Springs As Ethnographic Field Site in Second Life and Open Simulator (MacLeod 2009)

https://youtu.be/3nhvcHw54GE

https://www.youtube.com/user/helianth

"Naked Virtual Harbin" video talk ~

UC Berkeley Anthropology TSWG talk on F 11/2/12

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For Librarians and Booksellers:

 The book's target audiences are undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, information technology social scientists, academics interested in the "virtual," and people with a fondness for the 1960s. and alternative culture .

My book comes into conversation with Tom Boellstorff's "Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human" (Princeton 2008), and could be read in academic courses in direct conversation with "Coming of Age in SL."

For my next Harbin book, I plan to build a virtual Harbin, ideally in a movie-realistic interactive 3D virtual earth, Google-made, and do actual virtual comparative fieldwork, what I'm calling ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy - as an innovative methodology in Anthropology.

I'd like for readers to be able to visit virtual Harbin and have a Harbin experience, in their bathtubs, for example, for the meditative releasing action of the warm waters, - and write ethnographically about this.

Author's page on Amazon.com

http://amazon.com/author/scottmacleodworlduniversity

For more information about my Harbin book please email:

sgkmacleod@worldunviersityandschool.org or scott@scottmacleod.com

Twitter: https://twitter.com/scottmacleod
Google +: https://plus.google.com/u/0/+ScottMacLeodRainbow/posts
FB: https://www.facebook.com/macleod

Scott MacLeod's 'Helianth' video channel -

https://www.youtube.com/helianth

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World University & School's free, open,
Watsu (water shiatsu) wiki, subject page:

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Watsu_-_water_shiatsu

Watsu was invented at Harbin.

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For Scott MacLeod's Harbin book

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415 480 4577

Thank you!

by Scott MacLeod
Foreword by Nelson H.H. Graburn
UC Berkeley Professor Emeritus of Sociocultural Anthropology
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Academic Press at World University and School
http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html

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