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'Released by Ethnoarchitecture.com' showcases personal - professional notes related to Ethnoarch webmaster's current work. In other words, this is Ethnoarch's blog. The section also details new content added to the site, technical improvements and, in general, how Ethnoarch.com is going.
Candidate June 25, 2008 I can't believe it's been almost a year since I posted here for the last time, eleven months and twelve days to be exact. I don't even know how many times I have written "time flies!" but I feel tempted to invoke that cliché here again. This year went fast, and I had to stop working on Ethnoarch because in the academic program it was the most decisive year, the qualifying exams year. For a doctoral student, the quals feel like a rite of passage. They seem to have the elements anthropologists describe in such rites, from "liminality" (What am I, a student or a colleague?) to humiliation (I should have known the answer to that super-simple question...). As in those rites, there is fear involved: What happens if I don't pass? What am I going to do? As way to cope with incertitude in the middle of reading my one-hundred and ten books as well as preparing for the fifty-page written exam, I was trying to convince myself that the prospect of not passing was actually exciting: the possibility of starting a new life ... I am actually starting a new life, but because I passed. The exam actually went very well (although I am still thinking about that super-simple but problematic question). I am now a proud Architecture Ph.D. candidate, and life should be different after this rite of acceptance. I will be away from Berkeley for the next year (at least), doing field work in Latin America. But also I expect to be able to spend more time on Ethnoarch than I was able to during the past year. I have already started working on the site again, preparing important changes behind the scenes, changes I will be communicating soon... About this article A year goes fast: Now a doctoral candidate, I am back to working on the Web site.
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