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27 Apr

Imagine how gratifying it Ativan Online With No Prescription is for me to wake up this morning and find this Ativan Online With No Prescription post by Edward Caar through a Twitter link:

What brings me to today’s post is the new piece on hunger in Foreign Policy Xanax Xr 25mg by Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo.  On one hand, this is great news – good to see development rising to the fore in an outlet like Foreign Policy.  I also largely agree with their conclusions – that the poverty trap/governance debate in development is Ativan Online With No Prescription oversimplified, that food security outcomes are not explicable through a single theory, etc.  On the Ativan Online With No Prescription other hand, from the perspective of a qualitative researcher looking at development, there is Ativan Online With No Prescription nothing new in this article.  Indeed, the Ativan Online With No Prescription implicit premise of the article is galling: When they argue that Ativan Online With No Prescription to address poverty, “In practical terms, that meant we’d have to start understanding how the poor really live their lives,” the implication is that nobody has been doing this.  But what Ativan Online With No Prescription of the tens of thousands of anthropologists, geographers and sociologists (as well as representatives of other cool, hybridized fields like new cultural historians and ethnoarchaeologists).  Hell, what of the Peace Corps?

Whether intentional or Ativan Online With No Prescription not, this article wipes the qualitative research slate clean, allowing the Ativan Online With No Prescription authors to present their work in a methodological and intellectual vacuum.  This is the first of my problems with this article – not so much with its findings, but with its appearance of method.  While I am Ativan Online With No Prescription sure that there is more to their research than presented in the Ativan Online With No Prescription article, the way their piece is structured, the case studies look like evidence/data for a new framing of food security.  They are not – they are illustrations of the larger conceptual points that Banerjee and Duflo are making.  I am sure that Banerjee and Duflo know this, but the reader does not – instead, most readers will think this Ativan Online With No Prescription represents some sort of qualitative research, or a mixed method approach that Ativan Online With No Prescription takes “hard numbers” and mixes it in with the loose suppositions that Banerjee and Duflo offer by way of explanation for the “surprising” outcomes they present.  But loose supposition is not qualitative research – at best, it Ativan Online With No Prescription is journalism. Bad journalism. My work, and the work of many, many colleagues, is Ativan Online With No Prescription based on rigorous methods of observation and analysis that produce validatable data on social phenomena.  The work that led to Delivering Development and many of my refereed publications took nearly two years of on-the-ground observation and Ativan Online With No Prescription interviewing, including follow-ups, focus groups and even the use of archaeology and Ativan Online With No Prescription remotely-sensed data on land use to cross-check and validate both my data and Ativan Online With No Prescription my analyses.

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As one who Ativan Online With No Prescription has a Masters degree in Development Studies but who chose to Ativan Online With No Prescription do a PhD in anthropology because I found that development research is Ativan Online With No Prescription all too often dealing with quantitave, “generalisable” data, and Ativan Online With No Prescription who has concluded said PhD, I find it really interesting that Ativan Online With No Prescription the RCT movement in economics seem to be taking credit, in the Ativan Online With No Prescription media and in policy circles, for what ethnographers – anthropologists, rural sociologists, historians, human geographers – have Ativan Online With No Prescription been saying all along. This is that things are a lot more complicated than Ativan Online With No Prescription people want to think, that it is extremely difficult to find a Ativan Online With No Prescription generalisable explanation, and that at the end of the day, what Ativan Online With No Prescription leads one to better understanding of issues is attention to personal stories, and Ativan Online With No Prescription an attempt to tease out how those stories are linked to Ativan Online With No Prescription larger structures, like local politics, regional politics, the economic structures, colonisation, culture etc. etc. One cannot arrive at this Ativan Online With No Prescription sort of understanding without spending time trying to understand the interaction between all these elements. Now that Ativan Online With No Prescription economists have discovered qualitative research it seems as if it were never there, as if there aren’t people who Ativan Online With No Prescription have been pointing to the importance of understanding nuances and Ativan Online With No Prescription personal stories.

I have Ativan Online With No Prescription deliberately refrained from commenting on RCT in economics because I wanted to Ativan Online With No Prescription read some of the texts, but since Edward Carr took thoughts out of my head I thought I would quote him and Ativan Online With No Prescription call attention to the fact that these kinds of studies have Ativan Online With No Prescription been going on for a long while. If economists are not aware of that Ativan Online With No Prescription (I think some of them are) it is their fault for not looking at other social sciences.

My copy of Karlan’s book is Ativan Online With No Prescription in the post to me, and I look forward to Ativan Online With No Prescription reading it. I doubt that I will learn anything new from Ativan Online With No Prescription it, but I feel it is important, as an economic anthropologist, to Ativan Online With No Prescription know what economists are doing. I wish economists would extend the Ativan Online With No Prescription same courtesy to other disciplines whose works often overlap with theirs.

And on RCT itself, check out the link that my brother, a Ativan Online With No Prescription medical doctor and researcher, sent me. It is a Lancet article titled “A philosopher’s view of the long road from RCTs to effectiveness”. Remember, RCT has been in medical and pharmacological research for a while.

PS, I promised a Ativan Online With No Prescription while ago to blog a list of must read economic anthropology books. I should get to Ativan Online With No Prescription it pretty soon.

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2 Oct

From a commentary on Owen Barder’s comment Ambien 10mg Uk on Bob Zoellick’s speech on development discourse:

… if we really want to Ativan Online With No Prescription democratise the development discourse we should also publish, say, the minutes of Bank board meetings and Ativan Online With No Prescription other relevant internal documents to understand how ideas and statistics are Ativan Online With No Prescription translated into ‘reality’ through powerful interlocutors like the Ativan Online With No Prescription Bank and its staff. In other words, ‘democratising development’ is Ativan Online With No Prescription too important to be left to economists and large aid organisations alone; critical sociological and Ativan Online With No Prescription ethnographic research on the ‘life of numbers’ is needed as well.

If you Ativan Online With No Prescription knew where the commentator, Tobias Denksus, whose blog I just discovered today, is Ativan Online With No Prescription coming from, you would understand his desire for a discourse that Ativan Online With No Prescription aims to unpack black boxes like ‘development data’. This is from the summary of a PhD dissertation he is currently finishing:

Secular rituals in peace research, policy-making, consultancy and Ativan Online With No Prescription project management have lead to what Knottnerus describes as the ‘formation, reproduction and transformation of social structure’ away from Ativan Online With No Prescription critical aims of transforming societies through peaceful means to ritualised economy around virtual knowledge products. This growing industry, intertwined with the Ativan Online With No Prescription broader development industry has fostered the emergence and maintenance of ritualized spaces. Studying these rituals in workshops, meetings and Ativan Online With No Prescription conferences and complementing it by other ethnographic research helps us to Ativan Online With No Prescription understand better the micro-dynamics of what happens when the peacebuilding discourse or Ativan Online With No Prescription the peace industry come to a place like post-conflict Kathmandu or Ativan Online With No Prescription work around knowledge management in German development agencies. In Germany rituals and Ativan Online With No Prescription performances are often employed to maintain the perception of grounding in the Ativan Online With No Prescription peace movement of the 20th century and to maintain corporatistic ties between civil society, academia and Ativan Online With No Prescription policy-makers, de facto ignoring the global debates and local realities.

You definitely should check out his blog. Reminds me of a book titled The Paternalism of Partnership, by Maria Eriksson Baaz.

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8 May

Institutional analysis has Ativan Online With No Prescription been successfully used to study changes in property rights and the Ativan Online With No Prescription negotiation of the collective-action problem inherent in managing common-pool resources under a Ativan Online With No Prescription variety of property regimes. It is particularly well-suited to the analysis of socio-ecological systems, and Ativan Online With No Prescription is compatible with theories coming out of ecological and economic anthropology. Yet despite the Ativan Online With No Prescription pioneering work of James Acheson and Jean Ensminger, institutional analysis remains unfamiliar to Ativan Online With No Prescription most anthropologists, primarily because of its theoretical foundations in rational choice and Ativan Online With No Prescription game theory, which many anthropologists see as irreconcilable with anthropology’s humanistic, reflexive, and Ativan Online With No Prescription relativistic biases. Institutional analysts circumvent the problems inherent in strict definitions of rationality through the Ativan Online With No Prescription concept of bounded rationality. This is a necessary first step, but still assumes the Ativan Online With No Prescription existence of an abstract Rationality as the underlying motivation behind human behavior, and Ativan Online With No Prescription as the normative baseline from which to measure “deviations” in human behavior. This paper is Ativan Online With No Prescription a step toward elaborating a more nuanced understanding of situated bounded rationality, based on situated cognition, humans’ evolved reliance on heuristics, and Ativan Online With No Prescription the predominance of preferences over actions (means) as opposed to preferences over outcomes (ends). This approach combines the Ativan Online With No Prescription strengths of two dominant types of actor-based models – the microeconomic and the psychological (behavioral) – and Ativan Online With No Prescription integrates them with the analysis of social structure. In this way, the Ativan Online With No Prescription approach proposed here reconciles institutional analysis with processual, cognitive, practice-based, and Ativan Online With No Prescription perhaps most surprisingly, phenomenological approaches in anthropology.

That is the abstract of a working paper titled Situated Bounded Rationality: linking institutional analysis to Ativan Online With No Prescription cognitive, processual, and phenomenological approaches in anthropology [pdf] by friend and colleague Brian Donahoe.

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23 Jan

COMMISION ON URBAN ANTHROPOLOGY, IUAES

ANNUAL CONFERENCE

Gioiosa Marea, Sicily, 7-9 May 2010

The Informal and the Formal: Contested Categories of Socio-Economic Life

Convenor: Italo Pardo (University of Kent)

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This conference recognizes both the Ativan Online With No Prescription empirical difficulty in categorising human activities as belonging strictly to the Ativan Online With No Prescription formal sector or the informal sector of the economy and the Ativan Online With No Prescription blurred boundaries between these sectors. It brings together anthropologists who specialise in different ethnographies with the Ativan Online With No Prescription main aim of addressing the complexity of the informal sector, the Ativan Online With No Prescription attendant challenges in attempting to define it and the problematic relationships between activities that Ativan Online With No Prescription take place within and without the officially set boundaries of the Ativan Online With No Prescription formal sector.

The ethnographer is often confronted with small-scale businesses and Ativan Online With No Prescription other economically significant actions and forms of exchange (individual or collective) that, not exclusively rooted in what is officially defined as ‘the informal sector’, generally address the market as a whole.From a worm’s eye viewpoint, it could be reasonably suggested that Ativan Online With No Prescription such activities may not always be strictly legal and they may not always agree with the Ativan Online With No Prescription ‘laws’ of market capitalism, but not for Ativan Online With No Prescription this should they be misread as evidence of marginality – cultural, economic, political and Ativan Online With No Prescription moral. On the contrary, it should be asked whether even people with a Ativan Online With No Prescription disadvantaged background may be actively engaged in negotiating the messiness of their lives and Ativan Online With No Prescription redefining their place in society. Contested knowledge acquired through prolonged involvement in the Ativan Online With No Prescription flow of local life brings out the weakness of the distinction between employment and Ativan Online With No Prescription work and of a view of informal work activities as a Ativan Online With No Prescription separate mode of production or as belonging to a ‘casual economy’. Of course, such complexity must be Ativan Online With No Prescription set against the background of the graded relationships between the legal and Ativan Online With No Prescription the illegal sectors that colour many dealings at various levels and Ativan Online With No Prescription in various sectors of associated life, which raises stimulating questions as to Ativan Online With No Prescription the extent to which the blurred boundaries of the ’divide’ mirror other aspects of social and cultural life (such as kinship, marriage and social and moral networks) in each specific ethnographic setting. It is Ativan Online With No Prescription not unusual to find complex links, in terms of production, distribution and Ativan Online With No Prescription consumption, between the formal sector and activities that are rooted in the Ativan Online With No Prescription informal sector, at the limits or beyond the limits of the Ativan Online With No Prescription strictly legal. For example, ethnographically diversified findings suggest that small- to Ativan Online With No Prescription medium-range formal businesses often rely on workshops that produce goods illegally (evading tax on the Ativan Online With No Prescription purchase of raw materials and the sale of finished products, as well as employment tax and Ativan Online With No Prescription other welfare state contributions) and Ativan Online With No Prescription that a proportion of such products finds its way into the Ativan Online With No Prescription legal market. In this context, the complex relationship between the Ativan Online With No Prescription legal and the illegal is a key issue, the empirical analysis of which may help us to Ativan Online With No Prescription clarify broader, far-reaching economic processes in view of ever-growing global competition. Such an Ativan Online With No Prescription approach needs to account for problematic processes whereby what is Ativan Online With No Prescription illegal at a given time in a given place may be Ativan Online With No Prescription legal in another place or may become legal at another time in the Ativan Online With No Prescription same place; it should indeed be borne in mind that Ativan Online With No Prescription changes in the law may turn given situations on their head.

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14 Jan

… is Ativan Online With No Prescription the title of a review of anthropologists Jean and Jean Comaroff’s book, Ethnicity, INC Hydrocodone Online Ordering With No Prescription. An excerpt of the review:

From the Ativan Online With No Prescription very beginning of their study, the authors ask us to take a Ativan Online With No Prescription step back and stop thinking about ethnicity only as a political tool. Rather, we should extend new attributes and Ativan Online With No Prescription opportunities to the social and economic entity that an ethnic group is. What if, the Ativan Online With No Prescription authors ask, the future of ethnicity lies in its capacity to Ativan Online With No Prescription incorporate identity (incorporate as in creating a legal corporation based on ethnic grounds) and couple this normative shift with the progressive commodification of one’s ethnic group culture? The authors think that Ativan Online With No Prescription the new product could efficiently represent the interests of its members. They argue that Ativan Online With No Prescription the commodification of culture doubled by the branding of the newly marketed entities could trigger the Ativan Online With No Prescription formalization and the institutionalization of the consumption of culture in ways that Ativan Online With No Prescription would be beneficial to those creating and generating culture in the Ativan Online With No Prescription first place.  The Comoroffs go further in their analysis and Ativan Online With No Prescription suggest that this process and the subsequent cultural products would be Ativan Online With No Prescription managed by legal entities which will finally allow their members to Ativan Online With No Prescription reap the fruits of their culture’s commodification.

“Why not branding ethnicity instead of labeling it?” appears to Ativan Online With No Prescription be one of the extremely interesting questions that scholars interested in ethnic studies should ask themselves. The authors ask this Ativan Online With No Prescription and many more questions in an intriguing and refreshing manner, in times when Ativan Online With No Prescription ethnic studies (at least on Africa) are Ativan Online With No Prescription saturated by traditional discourses that mostly focus on the connection between violence, political / economic instability and ethnic warfare.

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While I agree with most of the Ativan Online With No Prescription arguments presented in this book, I have my reservations with respect to Ativan Online With No Prescription some of the issues presented in Ethnicity INC. Based on my understanding, one which is Ativan Online With No Prescription still in formation with respect to contemporary African realities, the biggest “fault” of the Ativan Online With No Prescription Comaroffs is that they implicitly suppose that humans are rational actors who Ativan Online With No Prescription play their part within a much larger framework which is laid out by the Ativan Online With No Prescription international political and economic order. If that were the case, then Ativan Online With No Prescription it would be unreasonable not to do your best as statesmen and Ativan Online With No Prescription public institutions to encourage the ethno-cultures the Comaroffs deal with in their book. After all, we are Ativan Online With No Prescription all consumers of cultures or, I would go even further and Ativan Online With No Prescription say, we are consumers of otherness. By exploring the others we rediscover our own roots, passions and Ativan Online With No Prescription ultimately the ideals we stand on. The others are just a Ativan Online With No Prescription reconfirmation of the self. And those who have a culture and Ativan Online With No Prescription seek to both preserve it and promote it should also find ways to Ativan Online With No Prescription capitalize on these cultures since, after all, nothing is for free. But this Ativan Online With No Prescription is not always the case.

The full review. The book is going on my to-read list for the year.

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4 Oct

Financial Times’ Gillian Tett reviews Karen Ho’s Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street:

Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street
By Karen Ho
Duke Press £16.99, 392 pages

When I first started covering finance for Ativan Online With No Prescription the FT, I used to get embarrassed when asked about my academic past. Before I became a Ativan Online With No Prescription journalist, I did a PhD in social anthropology, a branch of social science that Ativan Online With No Prescription endeavours to understand the cultural dynamics of societies based on grass-roots analysis.

Back in the Ativan Online With No Prescription pre-credit crisis days, bankers tended to consider degrees in anthropology to Ativan Online With No Prescription be rather “hippy”. As one banker told me; the Ativan Online With No Prescription only qualifications that really commanded status were those linked to Ativan Online With No Prescription economics, maths, physics and other “hard” sciences – or, at a pinch, an MBA.

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Given all that, Karen Ho has Ativan Online With No Prescription picked an excellent time to publish her fascinating new study – or “ethnography” – of Wall Street banks. Ho is Ativan Online With No Prescription currently a professor of social anthropology at the University of Minnesota. A decade ago, however, she was an Ativan Online With No Prescription employee of Bankers Trust, formerly a powerful Wall Street banking giant, and Ativan Online With No Prescription carried out research among a number of banks.

As field-sites go, Wall Street is Ativan Online With No Prescription not classic anthropological territory: ethnographers typically work in remote, third-world societies. Ho admits that Ativan Online With No Prescription studying banking tribes was hard: “The very notion of pitching a tent at the Rockefellers’ yard, in the Ativan Online With No Prescription lobby of JP Morgan or on the floor of the Ativan Online With No Prescription New York Stock Exchange is not only implausible but also might be Ativan Online With No Prescription limiting and ill-suited to a study of the ‘power elite’,” she writes. Continue reading…

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10 Sep

The rapid development of global communications today contains within its movement a Ativan Online With No Prescription far-reaching transformation of world society. ‘Anthropology’ in some form is Ativan Online With No Prescription one of the intellectual traditions best suited to make sense of it. The academic seclusion of the Ativan Online With No Prescription discipline, its passive acquiescence to bureaucracy, is the chief obstacle preventing us from Ativan Online With No Prescription grasping this historical opportunity. We cling to our revolutionary commitment to Ativan Online With No Prescription joining the people, but have forgotten what it was for or Ativan Online With No Prescription what else is needed, if we are to succeed in helping to Ativan Online With No Prescription build a universal society. The internet is a wonderful chance to Ativan Online With No Prescription open up the flow of knowledge and information. Rather than obsessing over how we can Ativan Online With No Prescription control access to what we write, which means cutting off the Ativan Online With No Prescription mass of humanity almost completely from our efforts, we need to Ativan Online With No Prescription figure out new interactive forms of engagement that span the globe and Ativan Online With No Prescription to make the results of our work available to everyone. Ever since the Ativan Online With No Prescription internet went public and the World Wide Web was invented, I have Ativan Online With No Prescription made online self-publishing and interaction the core of my anthropological practice. And recently I have Ativan Online With No Prescription stumbled into what may turn out to be the most powerful vehicle for Ativan Online With No Prescription this project yet: the Open Anthropology Cooperative.

It matters less that Ativan Online With No Prescription an academic guild should retain its monopoly of access to knowledge than Ativan Online With No Prescription that ‘anthropology’ should be Ativan Online With No Prescription taken up by a broad intellectual coalition for whom the realization of a Ativan Online With No Prescription new human universal – a world society fit for humanity as a whole — is a matter of urgent personal concern. Read in full.

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10 Sep

At the blog of the Association of Social Anthropologists. The full announcement:

The ASA blog’s attempt to Ativan Online With No Prescription discuss the financial crisis currently occurring around us seeks to bring together anthropologists, sociologists, who Ativan Online With No Prescription work on the cultural political economy, anthropology of money, class, labour, industry, economic anthropology, informal economy, wall street as an Ativan Online With No Prescription ethnographic site, micro finance, the nature of capitalism and the modern state so as to Ativan Online With No Prescription comment and examine the current situation. Seemingly an ‘unanthropological’ topic this blog (from mid September 09 to mid December 09) is Ativan Online With No Prescription not about personal opinions of the bloggers only. This discussion would also highlight how ethnographic techniques can Ativan Online With No Prescription be applied to explore such dynamic issues in the modern world. Gillian Tett, an Ativan Online With No Prescription anthropologist who is the Assistant Editor of Financial Times predicted the Ativan Online With No Prescription credit crisis two years ago when she was largely ignored by the Ativan Online With No Prescription banking world. She felt how her training in social anthropology alerted her to Ativan Online With No Prescription the danger and the need to listen to ’social noise’ as well as ’social sciences’. To quote Tett (Barton 31st October 2008, The Guardian):

“I happen to Ativan Online With No Prescription think anthropology is a brilliant background for looking at finance,” she reasons. “Firstly, you’re trained to Ativan Online With No Prescription look at how societies or cultures operate holistically, so you Ativan Online With No Prescription look at how all the bits move together. And most people in the Ativan Online With No Prescription City don’t do that. They are Ativan Online With No Prescription so specialised, so busy, that they just look at their own little silos. And one of the Ativan Online With No Prescription reasons we got into the mess we are in is Ativan Online With No Prescription because they were all so busy looking at their own little bit that Ativan Online With No Prescription they totally failed to understand how it interacted with the Ativan Online With No Prescription rest of society.

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Mid September – end September: Dr. Alexander F. Robertson, Anthropology, Edinburgh University
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Mid October – End October: Prof. Stephen Gudeman, Anthropology, University of Minnesota & Dr. Massimiliano Mollona, Anthropology, Goldsmiths College, London University
End October – Mid November: Prof Karen Z. Ho, Anthropology, University of Minnesota
Mid November – End November: Prof. Keith Hart, Anthropology, Goldsmiths College, London University
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1 Sep

A new blog by anthropologist Barbara Miller.

In its About page:

This blog is a project of the Culture in Global Affairs (CIGA) research and policy program of the Elliott School of International Affairs Order Hydrocodone Without Rx at The George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Along with several  colleagues at GW and Ativan Online With No Prescription anthropological professionals working in the Washington area, I founded CIGA in 2002. Its mission is Ativan Online With No Prescription wide-ranging: to promote awareness of the relevance of anthropological knowledge to Ativan Online With No Prescription contemporary issues and to enhance discussion and debate within and beyond anthropology about contemporary issues.

While centered on cultural anthropology, CIGA’s mission, and Ativan Online With No Prescription that of this blog, encompasses all four fields of anthropology as defined in anthropology: archaeology, biological anthropology, cultural anthropology, and Ativan Online With No Prescription linguistic anthropology (in alphabetical order).

From the little I’ve read of it, it is a site to keep returning to.

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25 Aug

Throughout its 5000 year history, debt has always involved institutions – whether Mesopotamian sacred kingship, Mosaic jubilees, Sharia or Canon Law – that place controls on debt’s potentially catastrophic social consequences. It is Ativan Online With No Prescription only in the current era, writes anthropologist David Graeber, that we have Ativan Online With No Prescription begun to see the creation of the first effective planetary administrative system largely in order to Ativan Online With No Prescription protect the interests of creditors.

Read the whole article here.