Toward an Anthropology of the Metaverse

Tom Boellstorff, Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine, is author of many articles and the books The Gay Archipelago: Sexuality and Nation in Indonesia (Princeton University Press), A Coincidence of Desires: Anthropology, Queer Studies, Indonesia (Duke University Press), and Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human (Princeton University Press). They are coauthor of Ethnography and Virtual Worlds: A Handbook of Method (Princeton University Press) and Intellivision: How a Videogame System Battled Atari and Almost Bankrupted Barbie® (MIT Press), and coeditor of Data, Now Bigger and Better! (Prickly Paradigm Press).