Tag: Wall Street

• 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…

• The Fashioning of LGBTQ Bankers on Wall Street (Anthropology of Work Review)

  This peer-reviewed article was published in Anthropology of Work Review. It examines the project of US corporate diversity and inclusion as it is experienced by LGBTQ-identified employees on Wall Street. It draws on ethnographic research among junior bankers who participate in Wall Street’s LGBTQ recruitment events and employee networks. Attending to their claims that queer…

• 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…