Author Archives: Yifan Xia

Writes about infrastructure.
A person walking on a landscape.

What are “Walking Simulators,” Ethnographically?

“Gaming” is conceptually branching out. It “virtually” overlaps with museum visuals and actively engages with lived cultures and heritage. Both developments point out that perhaps even with the prevalence of computation, there is still something we can learn from sociocultural anthropology, especially the anthropological ways of writing cultures – ethnography. (read more...)