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Anthro-Vision: How Anthropology Can Explain Business and Life

內容簡介

內容簡介 A revelatory method that explains how we buy, sell, work and live. For over a century, anthropologists have immersed themselves in unfamiliar cultures, uncovering the hidden rituals that govern how people act. Now, a new generation of anthropologists are using these methods in a new context - to illuminate the behaviour of businesses and consumers around the globe. In Anthro-Vision, Gillian Tett - bestselling author, Financial Times journalist, and anthropology PhD - reveals how anthropology can help make sense of the corporate world. She explains how to identify the 'webs of meaning' that underpin consumers' behaviour on the other side of the planet. She reveals why 'sense-making' can explain the most erratic behaviour of Wall Street bankers, and why concealed systems of barter shape our relationship with Silicon Valley. She delves into the cultural shifts driving investment in new markets and green issues. And she reveals what anthropology can tell us about our own workplaces, too: by identifying the hidden tribes within the office, or pinpointing which rituals are binding together a team. Along the way, Tett draws on stories from Tajik villages and Amazon warehouses, Japanese classrooms and City trading floors, all to reveal the power of anthropology in action. The result is a revelatory way to explain human behaviour. In a short-sighted world, we can all learn to see clearly - using the power of Anthro-Vision.

作者介紹

作者介紹 Gillian Tett is the chairman of the editorial board and editor-at-large at the Financial Times. Perhaps best known for predicting the 2007-8 financial crisis, Tett's bestselling book Fool's Gold was one of the definitive books on the crash.Tett holds a PhD in social anthropology from the University of Cambridge, where she studied marriage rituals in Tajikistan. Her work for the FT has taken her around the world - from Brussels to Tokyo to New York - and won her numerous awards, including Columnist, Journalist and Business Journalist of the Year at the British Press Awards.

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