Maia Green works on the anthropology of international development and issues of social transformation in East Africa. She has written on diverse topics ranging from anti-witchcraft practices to the proliferation of NGOs. Maia Green teaches at the University of Manchester.
Programs that give money to poor households are implemented across the global South as part of donor financed development assistance. Originally designed as a short term ameliorative for the social impacts of structural adjustment in Latin America, they are now components of development oriented social policy in countries as diverse as Kenya, the Philippines, Egypt, …
Medical anthropology has come a long way from its initial focus on the interpretive dimensions of health and sickness. The Medical Anthropology series from Rutgers University Press provides a showcase for contemporary explorations of lives lived through the intersection of everyday practices, transnational health systems and global inequalities. Fistula Politics. Birthing Injuries and the Quest …
Anthropology is flourishing outside universities. More anthropologists than ever before work in the commercial sector- as researchers, consultants, user experience and design specialists. Techniques informed by anthropological practice comprise an expanding portfolio of approaches widely used in commercial qualitative research. The practice of anthropology within commercial contexts has implications for the ways that research is …
+ Read More Anthropology as Strategy: A Review of Jay Hasbrouck’s “Ethnographic Thinking”
Jan Chipchase is a leading design researcher. Some of you may have come across his work on the anthropology of mobile phones. I discovered it by chance while flicking through a copy of Wired magazine some years back. That Wired piece became a core reading for students when I taught a Business Anthropology module at …
+ Read More Learning From Design Researchers: Jan Chipchase’s Field Study Handbook
I’m about to hand over after being chair of a department for over four years. Being a chair is a bit like death and taxes. If you are lucky enough to be employed on a long term contract in an academic institution you will probably end up formally managing your department. More realistically, given the …