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The Future of Technology and the Future of Anthropological Field Work

“You don’t want to be seen with such a high-tech device when you meet local people and talk to informants” said the faculty. Our conversation had begun with the iPad, and we were contemplating if it was feasible to take the device to do field research this summer. The concern is certainly valid. Yet without [...]

Drupal 6 on Mac with PostGIS

For an experimental spatial PostGIS database I needed to set up Drupal to manage the data entry. Drupal by default installs with mySQL, so to run it with PostgreSQL, which allows me to add the PostGIS language I needed to take a longer route.

Here is how it worked.

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