Anthropology

Feb 22, 20172 min

Should We Love or Fear a Digital Future?

I notice that whenever I read about the digitisation of work, I feel fearful: rightly or wrongly, it's not that I think that my role as a...

Sep 13, 20163 min

Magical Capitalism

I recently read an article on how magic is alive and well in Western culture - I'll define magic as using ritual words and actions to...

Nov 10, 20151 min

Conversation with David ZInger

I had a conversation with David Zinger back in 2012. If you’d like to hear it, it’s here: Employee Engagement and Anthropology: A...

Jun 9, 20153 min

Lessons from Anthropology - Diversity & Discrimination

Participant Observation As I've mentioned before, anthropology teaches us how to expose a culture's logic, by figuring out how to read...

May 12, 20154 min

Employee engagement – what’s anthropology got to do with it?

“You’re a – what?!” - The response I often get when I tell people that I’m an anthropologist is: “do you dig up dinosaurs?” Yet, there...