Atlantis, an Autoanthropology

Over the course of his long career, Nathaniel Tarn has been a poet, anthropologist, and book editor, while his travels have taken him into every continent. Born in France, raised in England, and earning a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, he knew André Breton, Salvador Dalí, Marcel Duchamp, Margot Fonteyn, Charles Olson, Claude Lévi-Strauss, and many more of the twentieth century’s major artists and intellectuals. In Atlantis, an Autoanthropology he writes that he has "never (yet) been able to experience the sensation of being only one person.” Throughout this literary memoir and autoethnography, Tarn captures this multiplicity and reaches for the uncertainties of a life lived in a dizzying array of times, cultures, and environments. Drawing on his practice as an anthropologist, he takes himself as a subject of study, examining the shape of a life devoted to the study of the whole of human culture. Atlantis, an Autoanthropology prompts us to consider our own multiple selves and the mysteries contained within.

Atlantis, an Autoanthropology

Over the course of his long career, Nathaniel Tarn has been a poet, anthropologist, and book editor, while his travels have taken him into every continent. Born in France, raised in England, and earning a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, he knew André Breton, Salvador Dalí, Marcel Duchamp, Margot Fonteyn, Charles Olson, Claude Lévi-Strauss, and many more of the twentieth century’s major artists and intellectuals. In Atlantis, an Autoanthropology he writes that he has "never (yet) been able to experience the sensation of being only one person.” Throughout this literary memoir and autoethnography, Tarn captures this multiplicity and reaches for the uncertainties of a life lived in a dizzying array of times, cultures, and environments. Drawing on his practice as an anthropologist, he takes himself as a subject of study, examining the shape of a life devoted to the study of the whole of human culture. Atlantis, an Autoanthropology prompts us to consider our own multiple selves and the mysteries contained within.

A New Illustrated History of the Book

THE OXFORD ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF THE BOOK. EDITOR JAMES RAVEN. OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2020. 480 P. ISBN 9780198702986. EBOOK ISBN 9780191007507.

No Country for Old Men? An Introduction

This introductory chapter by the book editor helps to identify the main aims, objectives, organization, and rationale behind the book. The book also advances the findings of each of the chapters and points, based on the initial findings, to some possible further research venues. Traditionally, gender studies have focused on women, which is logical, but gender studies have since the late 1980s started to pay increasing attention to men’s lives as well. This volume focuses on representations of aging masculinities in contemporary U.S. fiction, and thus investigates a selection of literary texts that place old men at the center of the narrative, analyzing specific depictions of issues such as older men’s health problems, body changes and shifting perceptions of sexual prowess, depression, loneliness and loss, but also greater wisdom and confidence, legacy, changing notions and appraisals of time, new relationships, and affective patterns, among others.

George Ella Lyon

Born in Harlan, Kentucky, George Ella Lyon began writing in the third grade and playing guitar in the eighth grade. As an adult, after establishing herself as a poet, Lyon was recruited to her well-known role as children’s author by influential children’s book editor Richard Jackson. In addition, Lyon is a novelist, playwright, essayist, and musician. Using word and song, she advocates for social and environmental justice. After teaching and serving as a writer in residence for many years, Lyon conducts writing workshops for children and adults throughout Appalachia....

The Prototype of a Story Book Based Platform for Preschool Programming Education

The importance of learning how to program can never be over-estimated. Even though there are already programming-learning applications for young children, most of the applications in this field are designed for children in the elementary school age or even above. Teaching younger children, for example, preschool kids, how to program appears more challenging. From our survey, it appears that even preschool kids can understand how to do programming and the question is simply which tools to use. Preschool kids usually start their reading from picture books. They learn mathematics, arts, histories, and a lot of knowledge with picture books. The goal of this research is to propose a platform for story tellers, illustrators, and programming education experts to cooperate to build picture books to teach preschool kids how to program. At this very initial stage, the platform is developed as a Web application and hence it can be easily accessed by various devices via Web browsers. The platform consists of a lean story editor, a picture book editor, and a programming concept editor.

Heritage Tourism as a Means for International Student Cultural Integration: The Baludik and aPlace4u User Experience

Intercultural education is taking on momentum in the education field. As part of a language project, a group of international Master’s level students at the Ecole Centrale de Nantes was asked to use two tools: “Baludik” (a gamified circuit editor) and “aPlace4u/eZoomBook” (an enriched book editor). Our goal was to suggest possible pedagogical uses of these tools as a means for gaining an understanding of a foreign environment, its history and heritage, all of which contribute to cultural integration. Our article reports on the methodology used to offer students creative activities based on the Baludik and aPlace4u/eZoomBook editors, and analyses the results and student feedback. The study concludes that the use of multimodal devices fostered student creativity and helped them better interpret their new environment. The tools required the students to elaborate hybrid productions in their story-telling integrating elements of both the host and the home culture. In this sense, the combination of the two tools served as a catalyst to connect the widely divergent aspects of home and host cultures.

A Brief Statement on the Future of Public Scholarship and the Research Methods Landscape

The book editor offers some final comments about the state of the field and promise for the future. Leavy suggests researchers consider using the language of “shapes” to talk about the forms their research takes and to highlight the ongoing role of the research community in shaping knowledge-building practices. She reviews the challenges and rewards of taking your work public. Leavy concludes by noting that institutional structures need to evolve their rewards criteria in order to meet the demands of practicing contemporary research and suggests that professors update their teaching practices to bring the audiences of research into the forefront of discussions of methodology.