Just a quick note. The Ethnographic consultancy Ideas Bazaar located in London, shuts down is 'gracefully winding down' as Simon Roberts puts it. In his most recent blog post, he shares some final personal thoughts about running a business on your own, w… more »
Category: "applied anthropology"
by lorenz on Oct 16, 2005 in culture traditions, development empowerment, ecology nature, applied anthropology, Northern America, anthropology (general)
As noted before, disasters have their cultural aspects: Disasters are embedded in cultural practices of societies. "Disasters do not just happen."
Anthropologist Anthony Oliver-Smith says in an interview about the earthquake in South Asia:
People… more »
by lorenz on Oct 3, 2005 in corporate & business anthropology, development empowerment, ecology nature, applied anthropology, anthropology (general)
(Via my site statistics) Most anthropological research consultancies concentrate on design and business anthropology. Pacific Ethnography do conduct consumer product research, but they provide human environmental impact research as well and work with no… more »
This is how social scientists should act. The Social Science Research Council has set up the website Understanding Katrina: Perspectives from the Social Sciences. SSRC explains:
"As analyses and "spin" of the Katrina crisis grow, we confront the sort… more »
by lorenz on Sep 5, 2005 in development empowerment, applied anthropology, Northern America, anthropology (general) • 1 comment »
(post in progress)
A quick round-up of some news and blog-entries on the Katrina-disaster:
Anthropologist Anthony Oliver-Smith has researched how communities re-emerge from destruction. He's surprisingly pessimistic according to a press release (U… more »
by lorenz on Aug 10, 2005 in technology, design anthropology, applied anthropology, fieldwork / methods, University / Academia • 1 comment »
"Rebekah Nathan" isn't the only anthropologist who is studying students.
The article in Democrat & Chronicle starts like this (quite typically for journalists who are somehow puzzeled by recent changes in anthropology)
On and off for two years… more »
by lorenz on Aug 1, 2005 in technology, corporate & business anthropology, design anthropology, Asia, applied anthropology
RedHerring
In a bid to eventually sell more chips, Intel plans to announce Monday that it has set up four new offices around the world that are staffed with anthropologists and engineers to help design computers with features for emerging markets. Tra… more »
by lorenz on Jun 20, 2005 in politics, religion cosmology, culture traditions, Us and Them, Asia, applied anthropology
Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research
Dutch-sponsored researcher Farsijana Adeney-Risakotta analysed the dynamics of the conflict between Muslims and Christians in the Molucca Islands. The anthropologist proposes that rituals play an import… more »
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