An ever-increasing proportion of our lives is spent in supermarkets, airports and hotels, on motorways or in fronts of TVs, computers and cash machines. This invasion of the world by what Marc Auge calls "non-space" results in a profound alteration of awareness: something we perceive, but only in a partial and incoherent manner.'
... says David Harvie before starting to criticize Marc Augé's book, "Non-Lieux".
Anthropology's gone mad too, in the post-modern "era". While I'm still thinking about to fieldwork or not to fieldwork in a village using hardcore modern ways, anthropologists started to do fieldworks in strange places. Augé's airport is only one of the normal ones when people like Robin Hamman are conducting research on the "internet" within the framework of rhizomatic structure* (from Deleuze & Guattari). There is some"thing" like cyberanthropology now! Hallelujah!
Please check out http://www.nomadology.com/ to see a miniature rhizomatic structure.
* rhizome is like the root of potato. water (and other things) can enter the root from various points. Deleuze and Guattari's application to social sciences signifies a non-hierarchical order; just like the internet.
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