Book Review: Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, From Ancient Fossils to DNA
New Florida Journal of Anthropology
Book Review: Cuban Literature in the Age of Black Insurrection: Manzano, Plácido, and Afro-Latino Religion
New Florida Journal of Anthropology
How Decomposition and Processing Affect Metallic Particles From a Bullet in Gunshot Defects
A significant portion of forensic anthropological cases involve decomposed or fragmented human skeletal remains. When testifying in a courtroom, often the focus is on trauma interpretation and distinguishing between blunt force trauma, sharp force trau…
That Swimsuit Reveals You: Body Image and Bathing Suits of Florida Women
Swimsuits are the most revealing garment that American women wear publicly. Yet wearing them affects how women feel about their bodies and attractiveness. Quantitative and qualitative data were collected from convenience samples of Florida women and an…
Generation of Microclimates From the Differential Decomposition of Textiles in North Central Florida
The analysis of textiles as trace evidence is an important area of focus in the field of forensic science, because enhanced understanding of the decomposition of textiles may point to more accurate methods for estimating the post mortem inter…
Book Review: Implementing Inequality: The Invisible Labor of International Development
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print.
Le théâtre-action pour expliciter et débattre des injustices de la démocratie alimentaire
Malgré les valeurs de justice socio-culturelle que les alternatives alimentaires portent, celles-ci peinent à intéresser des membres aux origines les plus diverses. Cet article se propose d’en saisir les raisons en revenant sur une méthode d’enq…
Special Issue: Teaching and Learning Anthropology in the Time of COVID-19
This special issue results from email conversations begun in the summer of 2020 concerning COVID-19’s effects on the teaching and learning of anthropology in higher education. The Society for Applied Anthropology’s Higher Education Thematic Interest Gr…
Introduction to the Redivivus Issue
Journal of Business Anthropology
Practice and the Theory of Practice. Rereading Certeau’s Practice of Everyday Life
Journal of Business Anthropology
What is Business Anthropology? An Ethnographic Study of an Explorative Workshop
The anthropology of organizations is always political; it might take place over shorter, as well as longer, time spans and in singular, pluralistic, or even virtual, settings. This paper addresses such issues by describing and analyzing fieldwork exper…
Merchants of Culture: The Publishing Business in the Twenty-First Century. By John B. Thompson Cambridge: Polity Press, 2010.
Journal of Business Anthropology
Field Notes of Volunteer Work in Iwanuma
Journal of Business Anthropology
Field Report: An Academic Workshop
Journal of Business Anthropology
What’s the Matter with Jarrettsville? Genre Classification as an Opportunistic Construct
The study of genre classifications within creative industries typically orients toward the maintenance of order within organizational and institutional contexts. This study takes up the case of Jarrettsville, a work of fiction published in the Un…
The Towards Silence Project: Multiple String Quartets Organize to Perform a New Musical Form in Spatially Variable and Distributed Conditions
This case describes an example of a collective making process in the field of performing arts. In 2009, multiple string quartets (many considered world class) organized to perform a new musical composition by Sir John Tavener. The composition cha…
A Funky-Formal Fashion Collection: Struggling for a Creative Concept in HUGO BOSS
In this case study, we follow a group of five young talented fashion designers in HUGO BOSS charged with creating a new concept for the brand BOSS Orange. The concept is to be neither formal nor funky but, precisely, funky-formal. Based on ethnographic…
Fieldwork Report: The Making of Lonely Planet Guide – On the ground research for the Encounter Guide Amsterdam, published in 2009 by Lonely Planet, and written by Zora O’Neill
Journal of Business Anthropology
Crouching Standards, Hidden Morals: A Choreographed National Rebuttal of Cosmopolitan Designs
This case describes a sequence of events which started from allegations by non-government organizations of violations in the production unit of a global brand, and moved to (acrimonious) denials by the supplier and multinational buyers, fai…
Ready for Business: An Anthropology Graduate as Change Management Consultant
This paper is a historical, confessional and ethnographic account of a former change management consultant in a global consulting firm who later went on to complete a PhD in social anthropology. Locating herself as both the researcher and informant, th…
Inside the Theatre of Business: Performance and Corporate Presentation Training
How are theatre-techniques used in business training? Do theatre-making skills represent a unique field of knowledge? In this case study, I consider the National Institute of Dramatic Art’s (NIDA) ‘Executive Presenter’ two- day course in Sydney, Austra…
Organizational Ethnography. By Daniel Neyland London: Sage Publications, 2008.
Journal of Business Anthropology
General Business Anthropology. By Robert Guang Tian, Michael P. Lillis, and Alfons van Marrewijk. Miami FL: North American Business Press, 2010.
Journal of Business Anthropology
Rethinking the MBA: a Turn to the Field within Business Education?
Journal of Business Anthropology
Girls of the Factory: A year with the Garment Workers of Morocco. By M. Laetitia Cairoli. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2011.
Journal of Business Anthropology