… I realize that the financial world’s lack of interest in wider social matters cuts to the very heart of what has gone wrong. What social anthropology teaches is that nothing in society ever exists in a vacuum or in isolation. Holistic analysis that tries to link different parts of a social structure is crucial,… Read More »
… a new blog hosted by the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity. Check out my friend Boris’s post on gaining fieldwork access to a public administration office in Stuttgart, Germany. Each field site has its own peculiarities. But they all have one thing in common: waiting.
last night we were driving to a restaurant when my friend who was driving realised, almost too late, that he was supposed to turn left not right. he had to hurry over to the lane that led left. he smiled and said that since he had a numbe rplate from a small city and not… Read More »
This is an interview that I think we all should read! Hat-tip to the Culture Matters guys.