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  What does it mean to be an Applied Anthropologist?    

      For me it has meant a very exciting and challenging life. It has been a life filled with mood swings from the joys of a successful project to the despair that comes with the realization that you can't change the world. It is to learn that my anthropological training has given me a conceptual framework that works to solve human problems -- those impacting people and those…

There seems to be a lot of confusion about what it means to be an applied anthropologist and what it means to be a professional anthropologist. It is a question which has concerned me for more than 30 years. It is question which has lead to an interesting discussion at the NAPA site on…

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Business Anthropologists in the Business World:  Our Troops and Our Future (Editorial Commentary)

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…

Editorial Commentary

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 not to be respectable and inferior to quantitative, so called, “rigorous scientific” methods.  However, recent organizational studies heavily…

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Perspectives in Business Anthropology:  Cultural Production, Creativity and Constraints

Brian Moeran

Mobile Phone Use, Bricolage, and the Transformation of Social and Economic Ties of Micro-entrepreneurs in…

Anthropological Approach to Consumer Behavior:…

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The term "business anthropology" became more popular and widely used in the 1980s, when anthropologists were hired in full-time, non-academic practitioners in niches related to consumer behavior and marketing. Prior to that time, the term "industrial anthropology", "anthropology of work", or "applied anthropology in…

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Blog this SfAA News Article -- Howard Zinn, Scholar/Activist, Gone at 87: A Model for Applied Anthropologists by Brian McKenna.