Bagpiping at Harbin 2005

 Now AVAILABLE -

Naked Harbin Ethnography

Physical-Digital Harbin Ethnographic Book For Sale

~ Academic Press at World University and School ~

http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html
(available from ~ http://amazon.com/author/scottmacleodworlduniversity  ~ (with daily blog posts,
some about virtual Harbin Hot Springs, including visiting it online
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/virtual%20Harbin)

And Visit the Harbin Gate
here
~ https://goo.gl/maps/7gSsSTweRCBo9gf87 ~

and 'walk' down the road to Middletown, California, in Google Street View
{and WIKI-add your photos from below the OLD Harbin gate}

Reed College Market Place Harbin Book Pic Virtual Reality with Google Streetview 2017

~ https://goo.gl/maps/7gSsSTweRCBo9gf87 ~ https://twitter.com/HarbinBook ~ http://bit.ly/HarbinBook ~



Scott MacLeod's 
Naked Harbin Ethnography:                   
Hippies, Warm Pools, Counterculture, Clothing-Optionality & Virtual Harbin
by Scott MacLeod
sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org
Foreword by
Nelson H.H. Graburn
UC Berkeley Professor Emeritus of Sociocultural Anthropology
http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html

Academic Press at World University and School
http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html

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To place an order, call:
415 480 4577
sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org

- Naked Harbin Ethnography has about 180 FULL COLOR photos, is 354 pages long on 8 1/2 x 11 inch paper.
- Author's page at Amazon.com ~ http://amazon.com/author/scottmacleodworlduniversity ~ with Kindle edition, readable on any device, now available.

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Upcoming Harbin project~book Release Talks/Readings/Signings' Schedule

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New Book ~

Winding Road Rainbow:                  

Harbin, Wandering & the

Poetry of Loving Bliss

ISBN-10: 0578435187
ISBN-13: 978-0578435183

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0578435187

https://amazon.com/author/scottmacleodworlduniversity

http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2018/12/circumhorizontal-arc-winding-road.html


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Autumn 2018

10/26/18 Fr - "Harbin & Avatar Bots: Robotics & Tourism"

TSWG talk at UC Berkeley

HARBIN & AVATAR BOTS: ROBOTICS & TOURISM

("Rainbow Gathering To Harbin This Day - Poetry of Loving Bliss" BOOK RELEASE on 12/14/2018)

- 5 pm PT - Gifford Room, Anthropology department, UC Berkeley,
(232 Kroeber Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720)
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HARBIN AND AVATAR BOTS: Robotics and Tourism

https://youtu.be/dN80Hm_db2I


~ http://tourismstudies.org/news_archive/SMacLeod2018.htm ~



UC Berkeley Anthropology TSWG presentation (slides)

~ https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1RSWzevDqjDXZQsLShnWKp-R76GkIcy18-wzQfMtu1oA/edit?usp=sharing ~



(NEW BOOK: "Winding Road Rainbow: Harbin, Wandering and the Poetry of Loving Bliss" ~

released on 12/14/2018)


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Spring 2018

6/9/18 Sa - Reed College Reunions' Marketplace

- 12:00 - 3:00 pm PT - Performing Arts Center, Reed College,
(
3203 SE Woodstock Boulevard, Portland, Oregon 97202)

~  http://reunions.reed.edu/marketplace ~



Scott MacLeod ’85: World University and School
Author of Haiku~ish and Other Loving Hippy Poetry

(& Naked Harbin Ethnography: Hippies, Warm Pools, Counterculture, Clothing-Optionality & Virtual Harbin)

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Spring 2018

~ RESCHEDULED ~

2/23/18 Fr - "Harbin & Avatar Bots: Robotics & Tourism"

TSWG talk at UC Berkeley

& "Haiku~ish" book release

HARBIN & AVATAR BOTS: ROBOTICS & TOURISM
& "Haiku~ish and Other Loving Hippy Harbin Poetry" BOOK RELEASE

- 5 pm PT - Gifford Room, Anthropology department, UC Berkeley,
(232 Kroeber Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720)

39 slides from UC Berkeley TSWG talk on F 02/23/18

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/19uZyMkk5ScQH747p-GfJdhFUCjtcQnUrvjGWwTsxbIs/edit?usp=sharing

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Spring 2017

6/10/17 Sa - Reed College Reunions' Marketplace

- 1:30 - 3:30 pm PT - Performing Arts Center, Reed College,
(
3203 SE Woodstock Boulevard, Portland, Oregon 97202)

- WUaS Press at Reed College Reunions Marketplace 2017 (see Harbin book here) - https://web.archive.org/web/20170510035319/https://reunions.reed.edu/marketplace.html

Scott MacLeod ’85: World University and School
Author of Naked Harbin Ethnography: Hippies, Warm Pools, Counterculture, Clothing-Optionality & Virtual Harbin

5/5/17 Fr - Harbin book and tourism talk at UC Berkeley

ACTUAL-VIRTUAL HARBIN HOT SPRINGS AND TOURISM:
"Naked Harbin Ethnography"

- 5 pm PT - Gifford Room, Anthropology department, UC Berkeley,
(232 Kroeber Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720)

~ http://www.tourismstudies.org/news_archive/SMacLeod2017.htm ~

31 slides from UC Berkeley talk on F 05/05/17

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1LLgbgkl1hXfiJtC6EtQPP6nSj_KiwIkRE7q9uadcA8I/edit?usp=sharing


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Autumn 2016

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)

~ CANCELLED ~

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)
http://scottmacleod.com/Naked_Harbin_Ethnography_Flyer_Readings.pdf


~ CANCELLED ~
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)

September 25, 2016
Naked Harbin Ethnography
NEW @HarbinBook Twitter Profile

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook



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Autumn 2015

(see below for resources, videos, slides)

11/6/15 Fr Naked Harbin and Ethno-Wiki-Virtual-World-Graphy:

Methodologies for Ethnographically Studying Virtual Place: Virtual Harbin

http://www.tourismstudies.org/news_archive/MacLeod2015.htm

- 5 pm PT - Gifford Room, Anthropology department, UC Berkeley,
(232 Kroeber Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720)



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Autumn 2012

11/2/12 Fr  "Naked, Virtual Harbin"
http://www.tourismstudies.org/news_archive/MacLeod2012.htm

Naked, Virtual Harbin

- 5 pm PT - Gifford Room, Anthropology department, UC Berkeley,
(232 Kroeber Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720)


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Spring 2009

The Making of Virtual Harbin Hot Springs As Ethnographic Field Site in Second Life and Open Simulator (MacLeod 2009)

https://youtu.be/3nhvcHw54GE

https://www.youtube.com/user/helianth

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FREE - "Naked Harbin Ethnography" Bookmarks - FREE
(http://scottmacleod.com/HarbinBookMarkTemplate.doc)

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Naked Harbin Ethnography Flyer

http://scottmacleod.com/Naked_Harbin_Ethnography_Flyer.pdf
http://scottmacleod.com/Naked_Harbin_Ethnography_Flyer.doc

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West Indian manatee: New "Naked Harbin Ethnography" book AVAILABLE for sale ... with Discount Code ... in the CreateSpace eBookstore ... https://www.createspace.com/6072369 ... There are about 180 beautiful color photos! ... with Discount Code here ... http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html ! ... in the new Academic Press at World University and School ... planned in all 7,943 languages!
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2016/09/west-indian-manatee-new-naked-harbin.html

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AUGUST 28, 2016
Naked Harbin Ethnography
NEW BOOK COVER

Naked Harbin Ethnographic Book Front Cover

Naked Harbin Ethnography Back Cover Blurb Anthro Soc Internet Studies


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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
   https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1tAhXFinq8xm8BDFcceoHsNBHJi0wpS0HDFh40PXsQ2I/pub?start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000

http://www.tourismstudies.org/news_archive/MacLeod2015.htm

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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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Scott MacLeod's
New
Naked Harbin

Ethnography Book
415 480 4577


Naked Harbin Ethnography
Hippies, Warm Pools, Counterculture, Clothing-Optionality & Virtual Harbin

UPC/ISBN-10: 0692646132 (which is also its ASIN)
EAN/ISBN-13 978-0692646137

Kindle edition ASIN: B01M1S3NMD

Academic Press at World University and School

http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html

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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.

Namaste & thank you, Scott


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Visit the Harbin Gate here,
and 'walk' down the road to Middletown, California, in Google Street View:
https://goo.gl/maps/7gSsSTweRCBo9gf87

About Ethno-Wiki-Virtual-World-Graphy, as new anthropological method:

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy

See too this related NEW "Naked Harbin Book" blog post:

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/08/siganus-puellus-naked-harbin-new.html

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Bagpipng at Harbin 2005

Bagpiping at Harbin 2005



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UC Berkeley Anthropology TSWG talk on F 11/2/12
http://www.tourismstudies.org/news_archive/MacLeod2012.htm
"Naked, Virtual Harbin" video abstract:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8gur9SMPlw

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The Making of Virtual Harbin Hot Springs As Ethnographic Field Site in Second Life and Open Simulator (MacLeod 2009)

https://youtu.be/3nhvcHw54GE

https://www.youtube.com/user/helianth



"Naked Virtual Harbin" video talk ~

UC Berkeley Anthropology TSWG talk on F 11/2/12



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=op2W_V5xUtM
(There are a few photos of the pool area and
nakedness about the 1:20:00 minute mark).


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For Librarians and Booksellers:

 The book's target audiences are undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, information technology social scientists, academics interested in the "virtual," and people with a fondness for the 1960s. and alternative culture .

My book comes into conversation with Tom Boellstorff's "Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human" (Princeton 2008), and could be read in academic courses in direct conversation with "Coming of Age in SL."

For my next Harbin book, I plan to build a virtual Harbin, ideally in a movie-realistic interactive 3D virtual earth, Google-made, and do actual virtual comparative fieldwork, what I'm calling ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy - as an innovative methodology in Anthropology.

I'd like for readers to be able to visit virtual Harbin and have a Harbin experience, in their bathtubs, for example, for the meditative releasing action of the warm waters, - and write ethnographically about this.


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Author's page on Amazon.com

http://amazon.com/author/scottmacleodworlduniversity


For more information about my Harbin book please email:

sgkmacleod@worldunviersityandschool.org or scott@scottmacleod.com

Twitter: https://twitter.com/scottmacleod
Google +: https://plus.google.com/u/0/+ScottMacLeodRainbow/posts
FB: https://www.facebook.com/macleod

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I just posted this note to the FB Harbin Hot Springs group I started … https://www.facebook.com/groups/5609024455/
I'd like to let Harbin friends know about my upcoming Harbin book - www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html - with this Harbin Hot Springs :) group which I hope also will document some of Harbin pre-fire. Am looking for many photos I can publish now, after the fire, and will explore donating some of the royalties from this book to a Harbin residents' fund.

Scott MacLeod's 'Helianth' video channel -

https://www.youtube.com/helianth


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World University & School's free, open,
Watsu (water shiatsu) wiki, subject page:

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Watsu_-_water_shiatsu

Watsu was invented at Harbin.


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415 480 4577

Thank you!


by Scott MacLeod
Foreword by
Nelson H.H. Graburn
UC Berkeley Professor Emeritus of Sociocultural Anthropology

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Academic Press at World University and School
http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html

http://amazon.com/author/scottmacleodworlduniversity
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