Tom Boellstorff

Quick Facts

Full Name	Tom Boellstorff
Date Of Birth	Apr 21, 1969(1969-04-21)
Age	55
Country	United States
Horoscope	Taurus

Tom Boellstorff Biography

Tom Boellstorff is one of the most popular and richest Anthropologist who was born on April 21, 1969 in United States.

He is also the co-editor of Data, Now Bigger and Better! (Prickly Paradigm Press, 2015) and Speaking in Queer Tongues: Globalization and Gay Language (University of Illinois Press, 2004).

Tom Boellstorff Net Worth

Tom Boellstorff is one of the richest Anthropologist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Tom Boellstorff 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Tom Boellstorff earned his Ph.D. in Anthropology at Stanford University in

2000. He joined the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine in 2002, receiving tenure in 2006. He is the winner of the Ruth Benedict Prize given by the Society of Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists. From 2007–2012 he was Editor-in-Chief of American Anthropologist, the flagship journal of the American Anthropological Association, and coedits the Princeton University Press book series “Princeton Studies in Culture and Technology.” He has been Co-chair of the Association for Queer Anthropology (formerly the Society of Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists). He has received a fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies and research support from the National Science Foundation and the Social Science Research Council. In 2016 he was made a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has conducted research on LGBT sexualities in Indonesia and on culture in virtual worlds, including disability experience in Second Life (see the documentary Our Digital Selves: My Avatar Is Me).

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Starla Ranked on the list of most popular Anthropologist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Tom Boellstorff celebrates birthday on April 21 of every year.

How do you pronounce boellstorff?

Boellstorff is pronounced “ bell-storf ”; the first “o” is silent.

What did Tom Boellstorff ethnography coming of age in Second Life discover

concerning virtual realities?

Bringing anthropology into territory never before studied, this book demonstrates that in some ways humans have always been virtual, and that virtual worlds in all their rich complexity build upon a human capacity for culture that is as old as humanity itself.

What is a second life sociology?

Tom Boellstorff, conducted more than two years of fieldwork (from June 2004 to January 2007) in Second Life, living among and observing its residents in exactly the same way sociologists and anthropologists have traditionally done to learn about cultures and social groups in the so-called real world.

What does a digital anthropologist do?

Many digital anthropologists who study online communities use traditional methods of anthropological research. They participate in online communities in order to learn about their customs and worldviews, and back their observations with private interviews, historical research, and quantitative data.

Why is digital anthropology important?

Digital technologies have given rise to a wide assortment of new populations that may at first appear quite alien. One role of the anthropologist has been to empathetically engage with those populations in order to help us understand both what they do and how to understand the world from their perspective.