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The Anthropology Department at Montclair State University is in the process of developing a Master's in Applied Anthropology and we would like to get input from local practitioners. If you would be interested in speaking to us about what kinds of work practicing anthropologists are involved in and how you would recommend that we train our students, please contact me, Fran Rothstein, a rothsteinf@mail.montclair.edu

My book on BVI social history, entitled "Slavery, Smallholding and Tourism: Social Transformations in the British Virgin Islands", released two weeks ago in eBook format for Amazon Kindle, Barnes & Noble Nook and Apple iBook/iTunes readers, is now also available online from Amazon and Barnes & Noble in both paperback and hardcover print editions.



Slavery, Smallholding and Tourism is a study in the political economy of development of the British…

http://thesuperorganic.blogspot.com/2012/01/what-business-needs-to-know-from.html ). But there is a complementary side to the question. "What does the applied ethnographer need to know about business?" I feel that it is more important, or at least equally important, to address this problem from the anthropologist/ethnographer perspective. In particular, the status/role that the applied ethnographer is required to occupy and play in the business context. That is the…

This is an excerpt of a paper I have in review, so don't steal it.  Thought it might be discussion-worthy.

"Even if “archaic” hominids didn’t have archaeologically visible “art” as we conceive of

it they had bipedalism and fire and so a capacity to vacate and/or to reorder their natural

surroundings in ways unavailable to most other organisms. This essay explores some

disciplinary…

In March, I will be starting a new evaluation study with a new grant award to evaluate a decentralized regional delivery model that my team is developing to deliver breast cancer screening and patient navigation to underserved women in rural counties across North Texas. To maximize sustainability, we will test a readiness-assessment criteria (RAC) tool in five current counties and…

We often think that an "applied anthropology" is a recent development in the evolution of anthropology as a discipline and science. The Society for Applied Anthropology, for example, was founded in the early 1940s in Washington and Boston. But the essence of what is applied anthropology precedes the SfAA. Conrad Reining in a paper, entitled, "A Lost Period of Applied Anthropology" published in American Anthropologist,( 64:593-600, 1962) finds that…

Council on Anthropology and Reproduction

GRADUATE STUDENT PAPER COMPETITION

The deadline for graduate student paper is SEPTEMBER 15, 2012

The Council on Anthropology and Reproduction (CAR), an interest group of the Society for Medical Anthropology, is pleased to announce its 12^th annual award competition for the best graduate student paper on anthropology and reproduction. Submissions from all…

 One of the chief motivators for the development of ethnography, in the American experience, has been the desire to record the histories of non-literate societies before those societies and their cultures became extinct. In the 19th century, this concern was due to the incursions of western civilization and the affects of acculturation on these societies. Today, such a noble enterprise is seen as passe, especially in the light of globalization. Besides, except for New Guinea and the Amazon…

We Need Business Anthropology Education

(Editorial Commentary)

The increasing attention and interest in business anthropology have not yet resulted in a clearer definition of business anthropologists as a distinctive professional group. In this volume of IJBA,   Barry Bainton suggests the term “career anthropologist” to define a group of people occupying mixed positions between the traditional academic researcher, the…

Volume 2(1)

International Journal of China Marketing

Table of Contents  

Editorial Commentary

Expecting Marketing Activities and New Product Launch Execution to Be Different in the U.S. and China: An Empirical Study

Roger J. Calantone, C. Anthony Di Benedetto, and Michael Song

China and the United States: Market…

We solicit papers for CEA sessions for IUAES 2013 Congress as follows:

For more information, please contact the CAE chair, Dr.  ZhangJijiao   at zhjijiao@126.com

or Dr.Tomoko Hamada Connolly, thamad@wm.edu

Series Panels…

Volume 2(2)

International Journal of

Business Anthropology…

Business Anthropology Is Dynamic and Growing

Robert Guang Tian, Daming Zhou, and Alfons H. van Marrewijk

Anthropology is a discipline that over the last hundred or so years has developed a wide array of qualitative techniques for understanding people and their behavior.  For many years, practitioners in the business sector considered these analytic methods to be inferior to…

The First International Conference of Business Anthropology (China)

May 17-20, 2012

The First International Conference in Business Anthropology (China) will take place in Sun Sat-Sen University (Guangzhou,…

Call for Abstracts, Workshops & Session Topics

Coastal Cities Summit II…

For more than 40 years (1970 - 2010), the American Anthropological Association has struggled with the question of professional ethics. In the early 1990s, the Executive Board of the AAA established a Commission to look into the question of professional ethics. "The AAA Executive Board charged the…

Professional ethics are applied ethics and thus can vary depending on situations and relative rights and responsibilities that arise in the course of one's job or professional activity. Here is an example of such a case of applied ethics that you, as an anthropologist might encounter.

Special Government…

Below are some discussions by the businessanthropologist group members on certain issues for your references.  If you are willing to involve in the discussion please sign up and join the group by visiting my blog: www.businessanthropology.blogspot.com

Robert:

To be honest, I worry a little bit about the supply-demand factor in business anthropology.  My graduate class in anthropology started…

What do social media and networking mean for the ethics of business anthropology and the AAA and SfAa codes of professional ethics and practices -- especially as these relate to the Common Rule and the distinction between academic basic research and the applied business anthropologist?

See The Superorganic

Anthropological Ethics…

Dear Network Members,

Please see the link to my paper and welcome your comments and suggestions.

New Paper: http://jas.sagepub.com/content/early/2011/01/12/0021909610388480.abstract?papetoc

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