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What is Anthropology Part 2

What is Anthropology Part 2

AgencyAnthro October 16, 2016 anthropology / corporate / practiceLeave a comment

“The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences”. Ruth Benedict’s now-famous dictum echoed so artfully by Nancy Schepher-Hughes (see this post) is a powerful way to conceptualize what purpose anthropological practice can play in the world at-large.

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Questioning Nature and Technology Part 1

Questioning Nature and Technology Part 1

AgencyAnthro October 9, 2016 anthropology / culture / nature / technologyLeave a comment

Nature :: Technology Anthropologists pursuing the study of material culture have been perennially interested in the relationship between nature, culture, and what role technology plays in the what it means to be human (c.f. Pfaffenberger 1992).

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The Myths of Corporate Culture: Myth 2 Corporate Culture is Fluffy

The Myths of Corporate Culture: Myth 2 Corporate Culture is Fluffy

AgencyAnthro September 10, 2016 anthropology / culture / practiceOne Comment

Myth 2: Corporate culture is “fluffy” After reading Michel Foucault’s deeply moving and oft-disturbing Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison, I don’t know of another book that so radically changed the way I thought about the role of the education, health “care”, and the state.

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The myths of corporate culture: Myth 1 Culture is a noun

The myths of corporate culture: Myth 1 Culture is a noun

AgencyAnthro July 6, 2016 anthropology / culture / history / practice / theoryLeave a comment

Anthropologists are often very deliberate about the way we deploy concepts and theories. This comes from a well documented disciplinary history that has taught us to be mindful and explanatory lest we do more damage than good.

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What is Anthropology?

What is Anthropology?

AgencyAnthro June 11, 2016 anthropology / history / practice / theoryLeave a comment

Notes from an Agency Anthropologist In 1946, Ruth Benedict, a US anthropologist published the study of Japanese culture entitled: The Chrysanthemum and the Sword. The book was a product of Benedict’s wartime research completed at the behest of the US Office of War Information. Given the political situation at the time, …

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