Recent computer applications in cultural anthropology

Anthropology and Business: Reflections on the Business Applications of Cultural Anthropology

Masters of their Conditions III: Clinical applications of theater anthropology in cultural psychiatry

Body learning gives actors basic structures and references that enable them to codify their actions in a script or score. With this score, acquired through training, performing and transmitting, actors who work with theater anthropology methodology offer strategies and tools that healers can use with their patients. This actor's score has inspired a mode of working with patients both to underst...

Human subjects protection and cultural anthropology.

c) Professor C and his students are frustrated. They are eager to begin their classroom project of ethnographically interviewing exotic dancers at the local nightclub, who are also students, on gender roles and sexuality. The results of the project will be term papers used for the students’ grades. But the IRB chair has advised them against presenting the project for approval. The chair said th...

Can Common Sense uncover cultural differences in computer applications?

Cultural differences play a very important role in matching computer interfaces to the expectations of users from different national and cultural backgrounds. But to date, there has been little systematic research as to the extent of such differences, and how to produce software that automatically takes into account these differences. We are studying these issues using a unique resource: Common...

difficulties related to cultural anthropology managing in organizational behavior

it is tried, in this article to introduce the field of cultural anthropology, which is a decipline of social science and its contribution behavioral science, through: comparative studies of values and behaviors, mutual interactions of cultures in organizations, organizational culture and environment, and its application in managing organizational behavior. the difficulties of determination and ...