'anthropology' Tag

• There Is No Cabal: An Investigation into Wikipedia’s Legal Subculture

  May 31, 2007

  An investigation into the community formed by small number of Wikipedia contributors who care enough to decide how, at some level, Wikipedia is run. The work discusses identity, communication, and organizational hierarchy in this subculture.

  posted in Academic Works, Unpublished by R. Stuart Geiger

• Senior Thesis: Democracy in Wikipedia

  May 10, 2007

  My thesis studied the legal culture of Wikipedia to examine the law through stories and histories, giving the reader a sense of not only what the Wikipedian legal system is, but also what fundamental assumptions the community makes in utilizing such a system.

  posted in Academic Works, Thesis by R. Stuart Geiger

• Trobriand Cricket: An Ingenious Response by Colonialism

  March 8, 2006

  Embracing Trobriand cricket as an instance in which domineering cultural empires were repelled is a flawed concept which masks the very forms of domination that it attempts to criticize.

  posted in Academic Works, Unpublished by R. Stuart Geiger