"The Art and Science of Applied Anthropology in the 21st Century" is the topic of the first podcast from the annual meeting of the Society of Applied Anthropology.
More podcasts will be published during the following two months. Last year's podcasts… more »
Category: "applied anthropology"
by lorenz on Apr 13, 2008 in technology, corporate & business anthropology, design anthropology, Us and Them, applied anthropology, anthropology (general), media, internet
(via Bits and Bytes) The true value of IT will come not from information or technology per se but from the social side. Therefore anthropologists and other social scientists will become more important to Information Technology (IT) Departments than IT it… more »
by lorenz on Apr 3, 2008 in Europe, applied anthropology, fieldwork / methods, youth, journal articles / papers
How can anthropology contribute to understanding and fighting inequality? The new issue of Anthropology Matters brings together articles from the first British postgraduate MA in Applied Anthropology and Community and Youth Work. Most of the students ar… more »
by lorenz on Feb 18, 2008 in applied anthropology, poverty, journal articles / papers, food and drink • 1 comment »
The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) warns ominously of an ‘unforeseen and unprecedented’ decline in world food supply. Anthropologists should contribute their expertise and knowledge to this emerging problem, Solomon H. Katz writes in the curr… more »
Can anthropology help us to understand the current Wall Street crisis? Of course. Anthropologist Gillian Tett is an assistant editor of the Financial Times. "It is undoubtedly an unusual background for a financial journalist", she writes:
Indeed, whe… more »
by lorenz on Nov 15, 2007 in technology, corporate & business anthropology, design anthropology, applied anthropology
Another example of anthropologists in product development: As a consequence of anthropological research, Xerox is developing a new kind of paper where the printed information simply disappears within about 16 hours, allowing the paper to be reused.
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A few days ago, the Executive Board of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) decided to oppose the embedding of anthropologists in military teams (HTS) in Iraq and Afghanistan. The use of anthropological knowledge in the U.S. military and the m… more »
by lorenz on Nov 12, 2007 in Latin- and Central America, development empowerment, applied anthropology, poverty
More and more people live in mega cities. Rather than fixating on investing in the countryside, donor agencies need to recognize that people want to come to the big cities. And rather than demolishing squatter developments one should integrate these sel… more »
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