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A Small Sample of the Weekly Readings for Anthropology Graduate Students

Agricultural Choice and Change: Decision Making in a Costa Rican Community . Peggy F. Barlett

Stephen B. Brush

American Ethnologist 1984 11:3, 623-624

An Anthropological Critique of Development: The Growth of Ignorance . Mark Hobart

Arturo Escobar

American Ethnologist 1995 22:3, 624-624

Anthropology and International Business . Hendrick Serrie

Marietta L. Baba, Arlene Scanlon

American Anthropologist 1987 89:4, 958-959

Peasants of Costa Rica and the Development of Agrarian Capitalism . Mitchell A. Seligson

Peggy F. Barlett

American Ethnologist 1982 9:3, 606-607

The Anti-Politics Machine: "Development," Depoliticization, and Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho . James Ferguson

Arturo Escobar

American Ethnologist 1991 18:3, 618-620

The Logic of the Latifundio: The Large Estates of Northwestern Costa Rica Since the Late Nineteenth Century . Marc Edelman

Jim Weil

American Ethnologist 1995 22:1, 192-193

Ethnography And Process Change In Organizations: Methodological Challenges In A Cross-Cultural, Bilingual, Geographically Distributed Corporate Project

ELIZABETH F. CHURCHILL, JACK WHALEN

Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference Proceedings 2005 2005:1, 179-187

The Coming Of Age Of Hybrids: Notes On Ethnographic Praxis

JEANETTE BLOMBERG

Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference Proceedings 2005 2005:1, 67-74

Anthropological Research in Major Corporations: Work Products of the Industrial Domain

Marietta L. Baba

Central Issues in Anthropology 1988 7:2, 1-17

Anthropology and the Development Encounter: The Making and Marketing of Development
Anthropology

Arturo Escobar

American Ethnologist 1991 18:4, 658-682

Anthropology in Pursuit of Public Policy and Practical Knowledge

National Association for the Practice of Anthropology Bulletin 2006 26:1, 82-107

Being-in-the-Market versus Being-in-the-Plaza: Material Culture and the Construction of Social Reality in Spanish America

Miles Richardson

American Ethnologist 1982 9:2, 421-436

Best practices: Research, finance, and NGOs in Cairo

JULIA ELYACHAR

American Ethnologist 2006 33:3, 413-426

Bringing the Moral Economy back in … to the Study of 21st-Century Transnational Peasant Movements

MARC EDELMAN

American Anthropologist 2005 107:3, 331-345

Building a Bridge between Academics and Practice

Ann T. Jordan

National Association for the Practice of Anthropology Bulletin 2001 20:1, 85-86

Commodities and Globalization: Anthropological Perspectives Commodities and Globalization: Anthropological Perspectives . Angelique Haugerud , M. Priscilla Stone , and Peter D. Little , eds. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2000 . 249 pp., tables, figures, index.

Kalman Applbaum

American Ethnologist 2001 28:4, 952-953

Competition and Cooperation in Contemporary American Urban Development

Leonard Plotnicov

City & Society 1991 5:2, 103-119

Conceptual Universals in Interpersonal Language

Geoffrey M. White

American Anthropologist 1980 82:4, 759-781

Constructing Working Selves: Silicon Valley Assemblers Meet the New Work Order

Associate Professor Glynda Hull

Anthropology of Work Review 2001 22:1, 17-22

Cultural Dynamics: A Case History of a Research and Consulting Business

Nancy Yaw Davis

National Association for the Practice of Anthropology Bulletin 1987 4:1, 1-28

Customs of Courtesy

Garrick Mallery

American Anthropologist 1890 3:3, 201-216

Developing Poverty: The State, Labor Market Deregulation, and the Informal Economy in Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic Developing Poverty: The State, Labor Market Deregulation, and the Informal Economy in Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic. José Itzigsohn . University Park: Penn State University Press, 2000 .197 pp.

Carlos Sandoval-García

American Anthropologist 2003 105:3, 657-658

Developing a Consortium of Applied and Practicing Anthropology Programs: A Status Report

Linda A. Bennett

Teaching Anthropology: Society for Anthropology in Community Colleges Notes 2000 7:2, 18-41

Discourse, Politics, and the Development Process: Reflections on Escobar's "Anthropology and the Development Encounter"

Peter D. Little, Michael Painter

American Ethnologist 1995 22:3, 602-609

Disenfranchised Workers: Pioneers on America's Internal Frontiers

Linda Marie Small

Anthropology of Work Review 2000 20:2, 17-24

ETHNOGRAPHIC FIELD SCHOOLS, COMMUNITY SERVICE LEARNING, AND THE HOMESTAY EXPERIENCE1-931303-16-9

Daniela Natale Diamente, Tim Wallace

National Association for the Practice of Anthropology Bulletin 2004 22:1, 147-158

Economic Custom in a Competitive Marketplace

Stuart Plattner

American Anthropologist 1983 85:4, 848-858

Economic Custom in a Competitive Marketplace: A Comment

Robert N. Baird

American Anthropologist 1985 87:2, 387-388

Empowerment and Ethnographic EvaluationHewlett-Packard's $15 Million Digital Divide Project (A Case Example)

David Fetterman

National Association for the Practice of Anthropology Bulletin 2005 24:1, 71-78

Ethnography and Internet Time: Ethics, Politics and Poetics

John Sherry

Anthropology of Work Review 1999 20:1, 15-21

Farmers of the Golden Bean: Costa Rican Households and the Global Coffee Economy Farmers of the Golden Bean: Costa Rican Households and the Global Coffee Economy. Deborah Sick . Dekalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1999 . 169 pp.

Robert Jarvenpa

American Anthropologist 2000 102:2, 410-412

Food Policy in Mexico Food Policy In Mexico: The Search for Self- Sufficiency. James E. Austin and Gustavo Esteva , eds. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987 . 400 pp. $49.50 (Cloth) ISBN 0-8014-1962O(; $16.95 (paper) ISBN 0-8014-9453-2

Robert D. Baer

Latin American Anthropology Review 1989 1:1, 14-15

Food Scarcity, Rural Poverty, and Agricultural Development in Latin America: Issues and Evidence

Charles S. Spencer

Culture & Agriculture 2000 22:3, 1-14

Global Connections and Practicing Anthropology in the 21st Century

National Association for the Practice of Anthropology Bulletin 2006 25:1, 1-13

Industrial Anthropology: Conditions of Revival

David G. Moore

City & Society 1988 2:1, 5-18

Intra-Cultural Diversity: Some Theoretical Issues

Pertti J. Pelto, Gretel H. Pelto

American Ethnologist 1975 2:1, 1-18

Introduction/The Background/The Field of Management Consulting/The Consulting Process/The Contributions of Anthropology/Management Consulting Knowledge and Skills/Becoming a Management Consultant/A Note to Managers/Benefits from the Exchange/Notes/References Cited

National Association for the Practice of Anthropology Bulletin 1990 9:1, 1-48

Investing in Emotion: Love and Anger in Financial Advertising

Daniel Lefkowitz

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 2003 13:1, 71-97

Is Anthropology Good for the Company?

Francisco E. Aguilera

American Anthropologist 1996 98:4, 735-742

Issues in Supporting School Diversity: Academics, Social Relations, and the Arts

Judith Lynne Hanna

Anthropology & Education Quarterly 1994 25:1, 66-85

Meeting Calendar

Anthropology News 2006 47:6, 64-64

Of Kwanzaa, Cinco de Mayo, and Whispering: The Need for Intercultural Education

Deborah Freedman Lustig

Anthropology & Education Quarterly 1997 28:4, 574-592

On Custom in the Marketplace

Michael Clarke

American Ethnologist 1983 10:4, 789-790

Perceptual Diversity: Is Polyphasic Consciousness Necessary for Global Survival?

Tara W. Lumpkin

Anthropology of Consciousness 2001 12:1, 37-70

Photojournalism, Anthropology, and Ethnographic Authority

Michele D. Dominy

Cultural Anthropology 1993 8:3, 317-337

Power and Visibility: Development and the Invention and Management of the Third World

Arturo Escobar

Cultural Anthropology 1988 3:4, 428-443

Pursuing Customers: An Ethnography of Marketing Activities Robert C. Prus . 1989 . Pursuing Customers: An Ethnography of Marketing Activities . Sage Publications, Inc.

Eleanor A. LaPointe

Anthropology of Work Review 1991 12:4, 33-34

Pursuing International Development through a Gender LensReflections on a Nonlinear Career Path in Applied Anthropology

National Association for the Practice of Anthropology Bulletin 2006 26:1, 32-54

Real time: Unwinding technocratic and anthropological knowledge

Annelise Riles

American Ethnologist 2004 31:3, 392-405

Recasting the Debate: Development Theory and Anthropological Practice

Professor Peter D. Little

National Association for the Practice of Anthropology Bulletin 2000 18:1, 119-131

Risk in Culture: The American Conflict over Nuclear Power

Gary L. Downey

Cultural Anthropology 1986 1:4, 388-412

Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute Commodities and Globalization: Anthropological Perspectives. Angelique Haugerud , M. Priscilla Stone , and Peter D. Little , eds. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2000 .249 pp.

Olga F. Linares

American Anthropologist 2002 104:1, 358-359

Solving Puzzles

National Association for the Practice of Anthropology Bulletin 2006 26:1, 191-208

Studying Technological Differentiation: The Case of 18th-Century Electrical Technology

Michael Brian Schiffer

American Anthropologist 2002 104:4, 1148-1161

Studying Those Who Study Us: An Anthropologist in the World of Artificial Intelligence/ Weaving Work and Motherhood/ Who Supports the Family? Gender and Breadwinning in Dual–Earner Marriages/ Learning from Saturn: Possibilities for Corporate Governance and Employee Relations. Studying Those Who Study Us: An Anthropologist in the World of Artificial Intelligence. Diana E. Forsythe . Edited with an Introduction by David Hess . Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2001 . Weaving Work and Motherhood. Anita Ilta Garey . Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1999 . Who Supports the Family? Gender and Breadwinning in Dual–Earner Marriages. Jean L. Potuchek .Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1997 . Learning from Saturn: Possibilities for Corporate Governance and Employee Relations. Saul A. Rubenstein and Thomas A. Kochan . Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2001 .

David Hakken, Patricia Marquez, Constance P. deRoche

Anthropology of Work Review 2002 23:1-2, 39-43

Telecommunication?Product Meaning and UseTwo Examples of Needs Assessment

Susan E. Squires

National Association for the Practice of Anthropology Bulletin 2005 24:1, 79-88

The Anthropology Of Work In Industrial Society

Herbert Applebaum

Anthropology of Work Review 1986 7:3, 25-32

The Anthropology of Globalization: Cultural Anthropology Enters the 21st CenturyThe Anthropology of Globalization: Cultural Anthropology Enters the 21st Century. Ted C. Lewellen . Westport : Bergin and Garvey , 2002 . 282 pp.

DON KALB

American Anthropologist 2004 106:2, 413-414

The Anthropology of Work in the Fortune 1000: A Critical Retrospective

Professor Marietta L. Baba

Anthropology of Work Review 1998 18:4, 17-28

The Commodification of Ethnicity in an Asian Indian Economy in Chicago

Kathleen Bubinas

City & Society 2003 15:2, 195-223

The Construct Validity of Cultures: Cultural Diversity, Culture Theory, and a Method for Ethnography

W. Penn Handwerker

American Anthropologist 2002 104:1, 106-122

The Customs of Conflict Management among Corporate Executives

Calvin Morrill

American Anthropologist 1991 93:4, 871-893

The Ethnography of Transnational Social Activism: Understanding the Global as Local Practice

Hilary Cunningham

American Ethnologist 1999 26:3, 583-604

The Rise of Yuppie Coffees and the Reimagination of Class in the United States

William Roseberry

American Anthropologist 1996 98:4, 762-775

The Skill Requirements of Work Activity: An Ethnographic Perspective

Marietta L. Baba

Anthropology of Work Review 1991 12:3, 2-11

The Theoretical Foundation for a Fifth Subdiscipline in Anthropology

Marietta L. Baba

Teaching Anthropology: Society for Anthropology in Community Colleges Notes 1999 6:1, 10-32

The Use of Anthropology in Information Technology

Eleanor Wynn

Central Issues in Anthropology 1988 7:2, 57-78

Whose Development? NGOs, International Organizations, Social Scientists, and Community Demands in Latin America

Maria Elena Garcia

PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review 2001 24:1, 149-154

Why Do Demonstration Projects?

John E. Dawson

Anthropology & Education Quarterly 1977 8:2, 95-105

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