Noah Porter
Department of Anthropology
SOC 107,
Education:
M.A.: University
of South Florida, 2003
B.Sc.: Appalachian State University, 2001
Professional Membership:
American Anthropological Association
Recent Projects:
2005: Boasian Theory and Cyberculture. 104th American Anthropological Association Meeting. Invited Session: Parsing Culture: Cybersocial Space and the Making of Group and Individual
Identity.
2005: Explicating
Special Types of Falun Gong Practitioners: Contact
Persons and Professional Practitioners. Nova Religio 9(2): 62-83.
2005:
Computer-Mediated Anthropology: Introducing a New Web Resource. AAA E-news
(Apr 05): GENERAL ANNOUNCEMENTS sec. 5.
2004: Falun Gong and the
Internet: Using Multi-Sited Ethnography to a Study a Dispersed Spiritual
Practice. 103rd American Anthropological
Association Meeting.
Session: Crossing Borders: Religion In Transregional Contexts.
(Paper accepted; offer to present declined due to conference location
problems.)
2004: Computer-Mediated Anthropology.
Electronic Resource: http://www.cas.usf.edu/anthropology/cma/.
2004: Sam’s
New Schtick: Anthropology students assign new images
to Uncle Sam in hopes of highlighting what they deem a misappropriation of
Native American symbols in sports.
The Oracle, Volume 41, No. 144, p. 1, 22. (Public anthropology.)
2004: Anthropology, Religion, and
the Politics of Persecution. Anthropology News Volume
45, Number 2 (February): p. 47-48.
2003: Book
review: Breathing
Spaces: Qigong, Psychiatry and Healing in China by Nancy Chen. Nova Religio. (forthcoming)
2003: Falun Gong in the United States: An Ethnographic
Study. (MA
Thesis. Also available as a
paperback through Dissertation.com.)
2003: Studying
Spiritual Practice in a Mediated World (w/ Dr. S. Elizabeth
Bird) International Communication Association 2003 Annual Conference, Theme
Sessions Panel Session: Religion, Media, and Globalization: Disciplinary,
Cultural, and National Borderlands in the Study of Religion in the Media Age.
2002:
Summary: Kaplan, Hillard and Kim Hall.
"Food Sharing Among Ache Foragers: Test of Explanatory Hypothesis."
Current
Anthropology Apr. 1985 Vol. 26 (2): 223-246. (The
Anthropology Journal Archive Project; forthcoming.)
2002:
Summary: Van Beek, Walter E. A. "Dogon Restudied: A Field Evaluation of the Work of Marcel Griaule." Current
Anthropology Apr. 1991 Vol. 32 (2): 139-167. (The
Anthropology Journal Archive Project; forthcoming.)
2002:
Summary: Aunger, Robert. "On
Ethnography: Storytelling or Science?" Current
Anthropology Feb. 1995 Vol. 36 (1): 97-130. (The
Anthropology Journal Archive Project; forthcoming.)
2002:
Summary: Wade, Peter. "Working Culture: Making
Cultural Identities in
2001: Reiki
healing at Ancient Wisdom : the people and beliefs
behind a spiritual center's event. (Senior
Honors Thesis, Appalachian State University.)
2000: Many Wataugans will do without
food to get their prescriptions. Watauga Democrat,
May 8. (Public anthropology: My Mobile Pharmacy research used in a
local newspaper article.)
Selected Web Page Projects:
Anthropology and
Journalism Resource Page
USF
Anthropology Exhibit Gallery Page