A few posts ago (Journey to web 2.0), I linked to a video that was created by Michael Wesch, a cultural anthropologist at Kansas State University. I just stumbled upon an interview with him at John Battelle's blog that is a good read. I was fascinated to learn about the field of cultural anthropology. In the interview, Michael Wesch said,
"For me, cultural anthropology is a continuous exercise in expanding my mind and my empathy, building primarily from one simple principle: everything is connected. This is true on many levels. First, everything including the environment, technology, economy, social structure, politics, religion, art and more are all interconnected. As I tried to illustrate in the video, this means that a change in one area (such as the way we communicate) can have a profound effect on everything else, including family, love, and our sense of being itself. Second, everything is connected throughout all time, and so as anthropologists we take a very broad view of human history, looking thousands or even millions of years into the past and into the future as well. And finally, all people on the planet are connected. This has always been true environmentally because we share the same planet. Today it is even more true with increasing economic and media globalization."
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