Rita Denny
Biographic Data
| ID | 133398 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rita Denny |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rita |
| FAMILY NAME | Denny |
| SIGNATURE | DENNY R |
| AFFILIATIONS | , |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Anthropology in Consumer Research
Consumer research, an emergent field in applied anthropology, examines relationships between producers and consumers as mediated by the marketplace. The anthropological purpose of consumer research is to discover cultural meanings of products and services in people’s everyday lives and to identify societal practices and discourses that inform and perform these meanings. While consumer research is inspired by and draws on traditional anthropologic…
Handbook of Anthropology in Business
Opinions
For this issue of the Journal of Business Anthropology, I approached a number of people who have conducted research in, with, on, or for business organizations of one sort or another and asked them to reflect upon their ethnographic experiences. What follows is a series of essays by scholars and practitioners - many of them extremely experienced, but one at the beginning of her career - who between them have provided us with a collation of exempl…
Connections Among People, Things, Images, and Ideas
This paper is a photo essay of images of Cuba taken by the authors in the fall of 2003. Through an analysis of the photos, our initial goal is to deconstruct reigning tropes and myths surrounding Cuba. By implicitly asking, “what is a photo?” the essay also tackles the larger issues of representation, meaning creation and understanding—of marketplaces, consumption, brands, and culture. We suggest that photographer and subjects are both agents and…
Being Mexican and American
We report on an ethnographic consumer research project among Mexican Americans in which negotiation of identity between respondents and a multiethnic, multidisciplinary team structured the process literally and symbolically. This negotiation is examined in terms of research process as well as results. We focus on how knowledge of language and cultural practices (or lack thereof) contributed to interactions and how respondents' articulation of bei…
What is Coffee in Bangkok
Selling In and Selling Out
Marking the interaction order
This paper is about turn exchanges, the structure of speaking turns and the relationship of nonverbal behavior to both exchanges and turns. Its purpose is to present a conceptual framework for analyzing and interpreting turn exchange and speaking turns, and data are cited when possible. First discussed are specific forms of exchange such as "smooth" and "simultaneous." The Praguean concept of functional differentiation is invoked to argue that fo…
Opinions
For this issue of the Journal of Business Anthropology, I approached a number of people who have conducted research in, with, on, or for business organizations of one sort or another and asked them to reflect upon their ethnographic experiences. What follows is a series of essays by scholars and practitioners - many of them extremely experienced, but one at the beginning of her career - who between them have provided us with a collation of exempl…
Marking the interaction order
This paper is about turn exchanges, the structure of speaking turns and the relationship of nonverbal behavior to both exchanges and turns. Its purpose is to present a conceptual framework for analyzing and interpreting turn exchange and speaking turns, and data are cited when possible. First discussed are specific forms of exchange such as "smooth" and "simultaneous." The Praguean concept of functional differentiation is invoked to argue that fo…
Connections Among People, Things, Images, and Ideas
This paper is a photo essay of images of Cuba taken by the authors in the fall of 2003. Through an analysis of the photos, our initial goal is to deconstruct reigning tropes and myths surrounding Cuba. By implicitly asking, “what is a photo?” the essay also tackles the larger issues of representation, meaning creation and understanding—of marketplaces, consumption, brands, and culture. We suggest that photographer and subjects are both agents and…
Marking the interaction order
This paper is about turn exchanges, the structure of speaking turns and the relationship of nonverbal behavior to both exchanges and turns. Its purpose is to present a conceptual framework for analyzing and interpreting turn exchange and speaking turns, and data are cited when possible. First discussed are specific forms of exchange such as "smooth" and "simultaneous." The Praguean concept of functional differentiation is invoked to argue that fo…
Selling In and Selling Out
What is Coffee in Bangkok
Being Mexican and American
We report on an ethnographic consumer research project among Mexican Americans in which negotiation of identity between respondents and a multiethnic, multidisciplinary team structured the process literally and symbolically. This negotiation is examined in terms of research process as well as results. We focus on how knowledge of language and cultural practices (or lack thereof) contributed to interactions and how respondents' articulation of bei…
Connections Among People, Things, Images, and Ideas
This paper is a photo essay of images of Cuba taken by the authors in the fall of 2003. Through an analysis of the photos, our initial goal is to deconstruct reigning tropes and myths surrounding Cuba. By implicitly asking, “what is a photo?” the essay also tackles the larger issues of representation, meaning creation and understanding—of marketplaces, consumption, brands, and culture. We suggest that photographer and subjects are both agents and…
Opinions
For this issue of the Journal of Business Anthropology, I approached a number of people who have conducted research in, with, on, or for business organizations of one sort or another and asked them to reflect upon their ethnographic experiences. What follows is a series of essays by scholars and practitioners - many of them extremely experienced, but one at the beginning of her career - who between them have provided us with a collation of exempl…
Handbook of Anthropology in Business
Anthropology in Consumer Research
Consumer research, an emergent field in applied anthropology, examines relationships between producers and consumers as mediated by the marketplace. The anthropological purpose of consumer research is to discover cultural meanings of products and services in people’s everyday lives and to identify societal practices and discourses that inform and perform these meanings. While consumer research is inspired by and draws on traditional anthropologic…
Sociology (8 works) · Political science (5 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Public relations (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Business (2 works) · Ethnography (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Marketing (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works)