Anthropology of Popular Culture

Part I: Short answer (IDs) (5 pts. each, for a total of 25 pts.). Locate a significant exposition of each term listed below in" rel="nofollow">in Nardi's My Life as a Night Elf Priest and: identify the semin" rel="nofollow">inal thin" rel="nofollow">inker she references (1 pt.): defin" rel="nofollow">ine the term (1 pt.): explain" rel="nofollow">in how it is important and what it has been used for in" rel="nofollow">in the anthropological study of popular culture (2 pts.): and give one example from a different class readin" rel="nofollow">ing or film (Beautiful Losers or Thank You for Playin" rel="nofollow">ing) in" rel="nofollow">in order to illustrate your defin" rel="nofollow">inition (1 pt.). Each short answer should be paragraph-length and must contain" rel="nofollow">in parenthetical references (Author Year, pg# or Director Year, timecode). • Aesthetic experience • Moral panic • Magic circle (your example may be an in" rel="nofollow">in-class activity for this term only) • Activity theory • Digital rules Option #1 POPULAR CULTURE: What does anthropology teach us about contemporary popular culture? Make an argument about this question by explorin" rel="nofollow">ing three different topics covered in" rel="nofollow">in this class such as fairy tales, rumor, commodities, clothin" rel="nofollow">ing, digital piracy, street art, or games and playin" rel="nofollow">ing. Be sure to move beyond the empirical and reference specific conceptual terms in" rel="nofollow">in your argument. You may use readin" rel="nofollow">ings, films or class exercise materials to answer this question (10 pts.) Option #2 MATERIAL CULTURE: How have anthropologists defin" rel="nofollow">ined material culture and developed it in" rel="nofollow">into an approach to the study of popular culture? Make an explicit comparison between course texts and Nardi's discussion of video game software and computer technologies. To answer this question, draw on the texts by Kilroy-Marac, Miller and Woodward, and Nardi, as well as any others you deem appropriate (10 pts.)