Naked Harbin Ethnography:
Subtitle: Hippies, Warm Pools, Counterculture, Clothing-Optionality & Virtual Harbin
Publisher: Academic Press at World University and School
Published: 2016
Place of publication: California, USA
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 354
ISBN-13: 9780692646137
Description: Bagpiping at Harbin 2005
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Foreword by Nelson H.H. Graburn
UC Berkeley Professor Emeritus of Sociocultural Anthropology
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Autumn 2016
Upcoming Harbin book Release Readings/Signings' Schedule

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2016/09/calopteryx-harbin-book-readingssignings.html



10/9/16 Su - Harbin book release party at Sierra Hot Springs (~3.5 hours from SF Bay Area)

- 10:10am PT - Sierra Hot Springs, CA meditation pool
(http://www.sierrahotsprings.org ~
521 Campbell Hot Springs Rd, Sierraville, CA 96126)

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11/5/16 Sa - Harbin book readings in Lake County (~2 hours from SF Bay Area)

- 11am PT - Middletown, CA public library 
(21256 Washington St, Middletown, CA 95461)

- 2 pm - Lakeport public library 
(1425 N High St, Lakeport, CA 95453)
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11/11 Fr - Harbin book and tourism talk at UC Berkeley ~ ONLINE as well

- 5 pm PT - Gifford Room, Anthropology department, UC Berkeley
(232 Kroeber Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720)


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Naked Harbin and Ethno-Wiki-Virtual-World-Graphy:

Methodologies for Ethnographically Studying Virtual Place: Virtual Harbin

36 slides from UC Berkeley talk on F 11/6/15
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Saturday & Sunday, September 12 & 13, 2015
Fire Destroys Harbin

Please visit Harbin's web site for further information and to help: 
http://harbin.org

Harbin lives on virtually in the book I plan to publish soon (I'm indexing it now), and I hope too now that I may be able to add many, many photographs as an anthropological record of "before the fire". And after my first Harbin book is published - http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html - I'm glad that, since I imagine actual Harbin will be rebuilt soon and become very differently beautiful again, "The Making of Virtual Harbin as Ethnographic Field Site" (in Google Earth?) will potentially dovetail beautifully and NEWLY with "The Re-Making/Re-Building of Actual Harbin" - for far-reaching parallel closures and re-openings.
~  See this blog post for articles and video about the fire ~ ~ 
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/09/harbin-hot-springs-and-middletown-wild.html

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Naked Harbin Ethnography:  
Hippies, Warm Pools, Counterculture, Clothing-Optionality & Virtual Harbin

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EAN/ISBN-13 978-0692646137

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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.
Table of contents: title: Table Of Contents; title: List of Illustrations; title: Foreword by Nelson H.H. Graburn; title: Acknowledgments; title: PART I: SETTING THE VIRTUAL STAGE; title: THE SUBJECT AND SCOPE OF THIS INQUIRY; title: Arrivals and departures – Everyday Harbin – Terms of discussion – The emergence of actual Harbin – The emergence of virtual Harbin – Harbin residents – What this a book does; title: HISTORY; title: Prehistories of Harbin: From modernity to counterculture, from actual to virtual – Histories of Harbin – A personal Harbin history – Histories of Harbin research - Challenges of developing a virtual Harbin and writing this Harbin ethnography - Harbin as dream, ethnographically, in actuality; title: METHOD; title: Harbin on its own terms - Anthropology and ethnography – Participant observation – Interviews, pool work, and virtual fieldwork in the pools – Ethics – Claims and reflexivity – Actual Harbin and virtual Harbin compared and contrasted – In warm waters - Virtual world, countercultural communication in a virtual Harbin – What flows between, observationally – Soaking in the waters – Watsu; title: PART II: HARBIN AS COUNTERCULTURE FROM MODERNITY; title: PLACE AND TIME; title: Visuality and Harbin – The Harbin valley – Traveling to and from Harbin – Immersion - Presence; title: HARBIN IN PHOTOS                                                          119; title: PERSONHOOD; title: The self – Harbin's life course – Harbin people and spiritual /avatar names – The pools, the 1960s and clothing-optionality as milieu – Gender and race – Agency; title: PRACTICES; title: Language – Friendship – Intimacy - Sexuality – Love – Family – Connectedness - Oneness; title: COMMUNITY; title: Events at Harbin – The group – Heart Consciousness Church and New Age Church of Being - Heart Consciousness and its expressions - The pool area - Milieu of openness; title: POLITICAL ECONOMY; title: A business emerging out of 1960s and early '70s counterculture – Northern California as political economy - Money and labor – Property – Governance – Inequality – Life in the Harbin valley; title: PART III: THE AGE OF INFORMATION AND VIRTUAL HARBIN; title: HARBIN AS A VIRTUAL, ACTUAL WORLD; title: Harbin virtuality in the pools and the erotic - This Harbin, alternative culture in virtual Harbin – Simulation – Fiction and design – Many Harbin residents in-world – Toward an anthropology of actual and virtual Harbin in the Information Age; title: WORKS CITED; title: INDEX