Tag Archives: Financial services

The need for an ethnography of the Nigerian financial sector

Tuesday, January 5th, 2010

In the BusinessDay of January 5, 2010 Anthropologist Karen Ho carried out a seventeen-month-long fieldwork on Wall Street, interviewing and observing investment bankers. She first started out working as a rookie management consulting analyst in a hybrid investment and commercial bank. She planned to first work in finance herself for a while before going back [...]

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Anthropology and Finance

Wednesday, October 14th, 2009

In the BusinessDay of October 13, 2009 The world recently marked a year after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, an incident that has been described by many as the beginning of the global financial crisis. This seems a decent time to take a look at one anthropologist’s take on the crisis. Gillian Tett, a Ph.D [...]

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