2-0305 TECHNOLOGICAL AESTHETICS: THE ETHNOGRAPHY OF CONTEMPORARY CULTURE

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Wednesday, November 16, 2011: 14:00-15:45

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This session would be of particular interest to:
Those involved in mentoring activities, Students, Teachers of Anthropology in Community Colleges

Organizers: Gabriela Vargas-Cetina (Universidad Autonoma de Yucatan) and Steffan Igor Ayora Diaz (Universidad Autonoma de Yucatan)

Chairs: Francisco J Fernandez-Repetto (Universidad Autonoma de Yucatan)

Discussants: Ramona L Perez (San Diego State University)

14:00

Noise, Music and Technology In Urban Merida

Gabriela Vargas-Cetina (Universidad Autonoma de Yucatan)

14:15

Denk and Renk: The (digital) Aesthetics of Balance and Color In Contemporary Arranged Anatolian Folk Music

Eliot Bates (Cornell University)

14:30

New Technologies: At Home Away From Home In Merida

Francisco J Fernandez-Repetto (Universidad Autonoma de Yucatan)

14:45

Mobile Banking and Mobile Phone Aesthetics: Observations From Haiti

Erin B Taylor (The University of Sydney) and Espelencia M Baptiste (Kalamazoo College)

15:00

An Ethnographic Exploration of Twitter

E. Gigi Taylor (Practica Group LL)

15:15

Kitchen Aesthetics: How Modernity Arrives Home

Steffan Igor Ayora Diaz (Universidad Autonoma de Yucatan)

15:30

Discussant

Ramona L Perez (San Diego State University)

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