Came across an interesting report via MindHacks on the different conceptions of happiness between East Asians and European-Americans. I’m always happy to see research that closely and thoughtfully considers the impact of culture on pretty much any behavior or concept often taken as universal. As an anthropology and psychology student I always approached psychological research [...]
Categories: anthropology, psychology
Tagged: anthropology, culture, emotion, psychology, research
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For several years, anthropologist Karen Ho worked at an investment firm on Wall Street. Her experience there resulted in her dissertation Liquefying Corporations and Communities: Wall Street World Views and Socioeconomic Transformations in the Post-Industrial US. Today, Time released a brief interview with Ho, in which she discusses her thoughts on what’s wrong with Wall [...]
Categories: anthropology, politics
Tagged: anthropology, culture, economics, financescape, labor, politics, wall street
From Beyond Culture
Citing Washburn (1973) on the importance of play in learning
“Through play (emotional, repetitious, from within) children prepare for the adult life of their culture. Separation of education from life…is new in the history of primates. In the American school there is no view of adult life…In schools discipline is substituted for the internal [...]
Categories: anthropology, education, psychology
Tagged: anthropology, bureaucracy, culture, education, edward t hall, learning, psychology