(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 »

Has anybody heard of the "Corporate Anthropology Center"? "The Global Hub for Cultural Business Anthropology"? They offer "Training and Certification - Consumer Research and Database - IntraCorporate Services - Competition Analysis" etc (extremly busines… more »

(Post in progress) Here a short summary of some stories published during the summer break: Most discussed: Jared Diamond's book "Guns, Germs and Steel" and the reasons for differences in progress for different societies From a summary of the de… more »

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 »

A post on "This Blog Sits at the Intersection of Anthropology and Economics" about "self-trained anthropologists" who claim to be experts in ethnographic research led to an interesting debate: "There are lots of people claiming to do ethnography who a… more »

Daily Telegraph It is easy to see why multi-national giants such as Wal-Mart, French rival Carrefour and Tesco, all of which are active in China, are so attracted to India. The country has the world's second largest population after China with over 1b… more »

I've collected lots of articles on Corporate Anthropology but maybe this one here in the Financal Times, written by an anthrologist (Gillian Tett)who has "tried to incorporate what I learnt about “people watching” into financial journalism", can be used… more »

D. Murali in the The Hindu Buisiness Line "Children have become conduits from the consumer marketplace into the household, the link between advertisers and the family purse," writes Juliet B. Schor in his book "Born to Buy". Marketers have "set their… more »