From CBC.ca:
there are an estimated several hundred ethnographers in the country looking at the specific ways that workers handle “personal information,” like calendars and contact information.
On the heels of my less-than-well-researched post about a free topographical map site — Ed pointed out how to get scanned versions of Canadian National Topographic Series (NTS) maps in the comments — let me point you to a terrific site for uploading GPS tracks and logs and plotting those tracks against all sorts of [...]
In his recent post titled “The Rise of Corporate Anthropology” (Harvard Business Online), Tom Davenport discusses the value of using anthropological methods in the corporate world. I am drawn particularly to his observation that anthropology and anthropologists can be difficult:
Of course, it’s not easy. Anthropologists can be a pain in the butt. They will [...]
A presentation by Nokia researcher Jan Chipchase is now available on TED.com. His talk is about cell phones and how to design the cell phones of the future. He asks why, regardless of culture, do people usually carry with them keys, money, and a cellphone.
Some of Chipchase’s anecdotes come from observing [...]
Fast Company magazine, famous for its early coverage of corporate anthropology*, has a short piece this month (subscription may be required) on the research that went into Wrigley’s new gum ‘5′. The descriptions of the participant-observation research are fantastic:
The development of 5 came out of a management edict to make a [...]
After blocking Royal Dutch Shell’s access to their hunting grounds on August 21, Tahltan elders have won a temporary court victory. Shell has postponed their injunction application indefinitely. This is the third summer in a row that Shell has tried to move into the Klappan region of northwestern BC. They own the [...]
By now, this story on San Francisco coffee culture is ‘old news’ (March 11, 2007). But it is apropos of my recent link to another post on breakfast culture in Toronto. Besides, many of my students are researching coffeehouse behavior in Vancouver and wanted the link.
If you have not read this piece on [...]
Technology blogger Rob Hyndman gives us his fifteen minute observation of a Toronto-area breakfast spot. My students should take note.
Update
Post-conference News (via Canoe Network)
Original Post
The United Nations’s ‘Expert Seminar on Treaties’ is being held this week in Hobbema, Alberta, the home of the Samson Cree First Nation. The agenda and several documents and presentations from aboriginal and government participants are available on this website hosted by the UN Office of the High Commissioner [...]
The Museum of Anthropology (MOA) at the University of British Columbia has received $52 million dollars to upgrade and expand the museum. Some of the money will fund the space needed to house the Reciprocal Research Network, reports the Globe and Mail. The RRN is “the world’s first Web-based system for the exchange [...]
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