Tag: Anthropology and history

• Syllabus: The Anthropology of Elites

  How can a discipline preoccupied with the ‘savage slot’ and the ‘suffering slot’ turn its attention to those with the most power in a given society or community? How has the study of elites required anthropologists and ethnographers elsewhere to challenge and reconfigure taken-for-granted methods? What have ethnographers learned about elites and the role elites…

• Anthropology and Corporate Culture: A History of the Concept

  By tracking the emergence, elaboration, and anthropological sources of the corporate culture concept in best-selling texts, this paper demonstrates how economic downturn, competition, and the turn to flexibility all enabled certain strands of anthropological theory to resonate with concerns of corporate managers during this period. Sampling from anthropological theories influenced by cybernetics and systems theory…