Digital anthropology : The Internet as Virtual Museum

Alain-Marc Rieu (1)

1 IAO - Institut d'Asie Orientale

The development of the Internet reproduces various institutional stages of the management of information and knowledge. The global library is the present model. The formation in Japan of large-scale data basis on nonwritten materials introduces the evolution of the Internet toward a new institutional model.

Mots clés: anthropology; Internet; large-scale data basis; nonwritten materials; cultural anthropology; science studies; comparison; cultural mapping

Domaines: Histoire, Philosophie et Sociologie des sciences

Alain-Marc Rieu. Digital anthropology : The Internet as Virtual Museum. Kanagawa University CEO Program Bulletin, 2007, 4, pp.3-33. ⟨halshs-00360153⟩