Vanderbilt’s Dr. Ted Fischer speaks to the class of 2022
Vanderbilt’s Dr. Ted Fischer speaks to the class of 2022 on how to find their passions in life
Vanderbilt’s Dr. Ted Fischer speaks to the class of 2022 on how to find their passions in life
Vanderbilt’s Dr. Ted Fischer speaks to the class of 2022 on how to find their passions in life
We kick off the afternoon of @designopssummit with thje ‘Methodologies and Work Environments’ theme. Here, Megan Blocker shares her ‘selectively scrappy’ approach to building ResearchOps at McKinsey.
In this @designopssummit presentation, @milesorkin talks to us about the importance of culture, and the power of moving from empathy to true compassion, thereby enabling people to bring…
Our ‘Growing People and Teams’ theme @designopssummit concludes with lessons learned from the mature Design Program Management team at Facebook.
In this @designopssummit presentation, Jennifer Kanyamibwa shares six life lessons that have informed her work as a Design Program Manager.
In this @designopssummit presentation, @hollyface1975 reminds us to use our own methods to deeply explore our own teams and how to make them more effective, more integrated, and…
This past week, the world of linguistic anthropology – and the world in general, though that world is presumably less conscious of the loss – lost a giant…
This past week, the world of linguistic anthropology – and the world in general, though that world is presumably less conscious of the loss – lost a giant…
Die Buchmesse in Frankfurt ist schon ein paar Tage vorbei. Noch immer stapeln sich Bücher zu Georgien, Sachbücher und Belletristik, auf meinem Schreibtisch. Auf Monate und vielleicht Jahre…
Are you going to this year’s AAA annual meeting in San Jose? Come check out this great panel and say hello! Panel: Inter-topia: Productive tensions within the collisions of…
[no-caption] Ezra Weiss This September, as Hurricane Florence bore down on the North Carolina coast, it spread a soup of stinking effluent from at least 110 lagoons on…
Bill Cosby is in prison, and Harvey Weinstein and Matt Lauer have been fired. Donald Trump is in office despite his own admission that he has grabbed women…
Watching for the future feels optional. Watching for disruption, that’s more urgent. One way to look for disruption is to watch our color palette. Cause color is culture.…
The 2018 AAA meetings are upon us and we’re looking forward to getting out from this rainy, cold Toronto weather and into some California sun! In keeping with…
Picture a street handcraft market in a touristic village called Porto de Galinhas in Pernambuco, Northeast Region of Brazil. A few days before the second round of the…
It will come as no surprise to most of us that how the Egyptian Revolution, and the Arab Spring more generally, was covered in global media would depend…
Sacred Rice: An Ethnography of Identity, Environment, and Development in Rural West Africa (Oxford University Press, 2015) is a book about change. The Jola, a people living in…
Co-Sponsored by the Society for Economic Anthropology and APLA Since 2011, anthropologists have been researching cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and the blockchain technologies on which they are bas…
In a global context of forced mobility, growing inequality, and economic restructuring and austerity, actors in the social domain face an expanding sphere of intervention and, often, shrinking…
The English legal historian Frederic Maitland argued (around 1900) that the trust was one of the great innovations of his country’s legal development: a flexible legal mechanism that…
Wer sind eigentlich die knapp 30 Seniorprofessorinnen und –professoren an der Goethe-Universität, die sich auch nach ihrer Pensionierung noch in der Lehre engagieren? In einer mehrteiligen Serie werde…
Burger (Object Lessons): Carol J. Adams. London: Bloomsbury. 2018. 174 pp. ISBN 9781501329463 James P. Verinis Anthropology and Sociology Roger Williams University Along with personal stereo a…
Listening for the future is a tricky thing. If we listen far enough out into the future, we are dealing with very weak signals. Or, better, we are…