We're All Cyberlab Rats

Anthropologist Genevieve Bell studies the most intimate details of people's lives. She knows that northern Italians like to read newspapers in bed and that Chinese families don't spend much time in their small, cramped kitchens. She might trail along when a housewife in Brittany visits the produce market at dawn and is ready with her notebook as a German family heads off to a country cottage, lugging along the dog, the kids and, increasingly these days, a VCR. She is probably one of the few people who can tell you the symbolism behind people's choice of location for their TV sets...

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