Allen Batteau
Biographic Data
| ID | 176056 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Allen Batteau |
| GIVEN NAMES | Allen |
| FAMILY NAME | Batteau |
| SIGNATURE | BATTEAU A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wayne State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 70 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Pushed Over the Edge
In her 1979 book, States and Social Revolutions, Theda Skocpol observed that social revolutions occur when a corrupt ancien rgime experiences an economic downturn, setting in motion widespread popular discontent. The Russian Revolution of 1917, like the French Revolution of 1789, was abetted by the breakdown of the imperial order, in both cases leading to a reign of terror. Other social revolutions, such as Roosevelt's New Deal, have been less te…
Global Business Anthropology Summit 2018: Summary and Reflections
Global Business Anthropology Summit 2018: Summary and Reflections
Technology
As a key word for both anthropology and popular usage, the term “technology” contains multiple and at times inconsistent meanings. An anthropological perspective on technology is presented in this entry, which reviews exemplary studies and identifies recurrent themes of anthropology's relationship to science and technology studies, the bounding of the term technology, critiques of technology, the relationship of technology to materiality, and the…
Cultural Change Management in Organizations from Competing Perspectives
Since the 1980s, it has generally been accepted that corporations have cultures, and that corporate culture bears an important, if poorly understood, relationship to corporate performance. Figuring out how to measure, fine-tune, and adjust corporate culture has been a cottage industry within management consulting ever since, employing numerous psychologists, sociologists, management theorists, communication specialists, and occasionally anthropol…
Deep Diversity
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The Ethical Epistemes of Anthropology and Economics
This article examines the separate epistemologies of anthropology and neoclassical economics, suggesting that both epistemologies are tied to and represent ethical stances. After discussing the differences between morality and ethics, it suggests that the epistemologies of both disciplines are rooted in colonial encounters. Although numerous states and empires had previously encountered populations on their peripheries, the European colonial enco…
Horizons of Business Anthropology in a World of Flexible Accumulation
Classically, anthropology supplied a cultural critique, by contrasting the Noble Savage to contemporary institutions and exposing the effects of structures of authority. This understanding of humanity was expanded a hundred years ago by Boas's embrace of cultural and linguistic variety within a common humanity. Similarly, the classical role for business anthropology and other forms of applied anthropology has been to identify areas in contemporar…
Creating a Culture of Enterprise Cybersecurity
In this article I describe the fundamental dimensions of a security culture, a concept that builds on the experience of “safety culture” in several high-hazard industries. After outlining the concept and subtleties of corporate culture, I apply these concepts to issues of security, focusing on issues of trust, identification and authentication in complex environments. These issues become more challenging in virtual environments, as familiar token…
Technological Peripheralization
Technological gaps in large-scale systems, whether ancient empires or the modern world system, are millenia old and are usually viewed in terms of variable rates of innovation and diffusion. When overlaid with large-scale, tightly coupled systems, such as air transport, pharmaceutical regimes, power grids, industrial supply chains, or food supply networks, these mismatches frequently have adverse consequences for the performance of the system. Th…
Creating the Land of the Sky: Tourism and Society in Western North Carolina
Rethinking Commodification: Cases and Readings in Law and Culture
Rethinking Commodification: Cases and Readings in Law and Culture. Martha M. Ertmanand Joan C. Williams, eds. New York. New York University Press, 2005. 450 pp
Seldom Ask, Never Tell: Labor and Discourse in Appalachia
Seldom Ask, Never Tell: Labor and Discourse in Appalachia. Anita Puckett. Oxford. Oxford University Press, 2000. xv+ 309 pp., figures, tables, appendices, notes, references, index
The Anthropology of Aviation and Flight Safety
This article examines the anthropological issues posed by commercial aviation, an industry that in less than a lifetime has changed the meanings of space and place, and altered fundamental perceptions of global civilization. The article begins with a critical examination of the concept of
A Report From the Internet2 “Sociotechnical Summit”
After viewing demonstrations at the Internet2 “Sociotechnical Summit,” the author observes that the range in capability and infrastructure between that of advanced developers and that of beginning users is widening and that in production environments there are inevitably constraints not found in the laboratory, where these applications work so well. These constraints are not just a matter of the “real world” failing to catch up with the laborator…
Aggressive Technology in a Century of Industrial Disasters
When the science of humanity turns its attention toward industrial civilization, it should consider not only the condition of industrial producers, which has been the staple of industrial anthropology in works such as those by June Nash (We Eat the Mines and the Mines Eat Us: Dependency and Exploitation in Bolivian Tin Mines. New York: Columbia University Press. 1979) and Aihwa Ong, (Spirits of Resistance and Capitalist Discipline: Factory Women …
Anthropology with an Altitude
Negations and Ambiguities in the Cultures of Organization
In this article I examine the difference between concepts of culture contained in organizational studies and those in anthropology. The twentieth-century emergence of rationalized organizations poses an unmet challenge to anthropological theory. The unique cultural consequences of the organizational form are found in the cultures of command and authority, adaptation and resistance, alienation and inclusion that are found in every organization. Th…
Digital Society, Analog Theory
Advanced information technology creates a new context for information, a context in which the investments required to produce and transport information are obscured by the visually stimulating images accompanying the information. Anthropological theory, with its heritage in the expansion of industrial society, may be ill equipped to understand the self-reinforcing constellation of consciousness and productive relationships that constitute digital…
Introduction: Social Aspects of the National Information Infrastructure
Two Sides to Everything . Shaunna L. Scott
The Invention of Appalachia. The Anthropology of Form and Meaning
The Invention of Appalachia
Appalachia and America: Autonomy and Regional Dependence
Who Owns Appalachia? Landownership and Its Impact
Class, Culture and Community: A Biographical Study of Social Change in Mining
Rethinking Commodification: Cases and Readings in Law and Culture
Rethinking Commodification: Cases and Readings in Law and Culture. Martha M. Ertmanand Joan C. Williams, eds. New York. New York University Press, 2005. 450 pp
Negations and Ambiguities in the Cultures of Organization
In this article I examine the difference between concepts of culture contained in organizational studies and those in anthropology. The twentieth-century emergence of rationalized organizations poses an unmet challenge to anthropological theory. The unique cultural consequences of the organizational form are found in the cultures of command and authority, adaptation and resistance, alienation and inclusion that are found in every organization. Th…
Class, Culture and Community: A Biographical Study of Social Change in Mining
Mosbys and broomsedge: The semantics of class in an Appalachian kinship system
The kinship forms of a community in the Appalachian Mountains of the southeastern United States are examined, with a focus on a kinship unit called the set by the mountain people. This unit, which is a collection of descendants of a common ancestor living in close proximity, is analyzed in terms of its composition, constitution, and use in network formation. It is demonstrated that the set is not simply a kinship group and that its existence is n…
Horizons of Business Anthropology in a World of Flexible Accumulation
Classically, anthropology supplied a cultural critique, by contrasting the Noble Savage to contemporary institutions and exposing the effects of structures of authority. This understanding of humanity was expanded a hundred years ago by Boas's embrace of cultural and linguistic variety within a common humanity. Similarly, the classical role for business anthropology and other forms of applied anthropology has been to identify areas in contemporar…
Technological Peripheralization
Technological gaps in large-scale systems, whether ancient empires or the modern world system, are millenia old and are usually viewed in terms of variable rates of innovation and diffusion. When overlaid with large-scale, tightly coupled systems, such as air transport, pharmaceutical regimes, power grids, industrial supply chains, or food supply networks, these mismatches frequently have adverse consequences for the performance of the system. Th…
Aggressive Technology in a Century of Industrial Disasters
When the science of humanity turns its attention toward industrial civilization, it should consider not only the condition of industrial producers, which has been the staple of industrial anthropology in works such as those by June Nash (We Eat the Mines and the Mines Eat Us: Dependency and Exploitation in Bolivian Tin Mines. New York: Columbia University Press. 1979) and Aihwa Ong, (Spirits of Resistance and Capitalist Discipline: Factory Women …
Introduction: Social Aspects of the National Information Infrastructure
Mosbys and broomsedge: The semantics of class in an Appalachian kinship system
The kinship forms of a community in the Appalachian Mountains of the southeastern United States are examined, with a focus on a kinship unit called the set by the mountain people. This unit, which is a collection of descendants of a common ancestor living in close proximity, is analyzed in terms of its composition, constitution, and use in network formation. It is demonstrated that the set is not simply a kinship group and that its existence is n…
General/Theoretical: Ethnopolitics: A Conceptual Framework. Joseph Rothschild
Class, Culture and Community: A Biographical Study of Social Change in Mining
Appalachia and America: Autonomy and Regional Dependence
Who Owns Appalachia? Landownership and Its Impact
The Invention of Appalachia. The Anthropology of Form and Meaning
The Invention of Appalachia
Digital Society, Analog Theory
Advanced information technology creates a new context for information, a context in which the investments required to produce and transport information are obscured by the visually stimulating images accompanying the information. Anthropological theory, with its heritage in the expansion of industrial society, may be ill equipped to understand the self-reinforcing constellation of consciousness and productive relationships that constitute digital…
Introduction: Social Aspects of the National Information Infrastructure
Two Sides to Everything . Shaunna L. Scott
Anthropology with an Altitude
Negations and Ambiguities in the Cultures of Organization
In this article I examine the difference between concepts of culture contained in organizational studies and those in anthropology. The twentieth-century emergence of rationalized organizations poses an unmet challenge to anthropological theory. The unique cultural consequences of the organizational form are found in the cultures of command and authority, adaptation and resistance, alienation and inclusion that are found in every organization. Th…
The Anthropology of Aviation and Flight Safety
This article examines the anthropological issues posed by commercial aviation, an industry that in less than a lifetime has changed the meanings of space and place, and altered fundamental perceptions of global civilization. The article begins with a critical examination of the concept of
A Report From the Internet2 “Sociotechnical Summit”
After viewing demonstrations at the Internet2 “Sociotechnical Summit,” the author observes that the range in capability and infrastructure between that of advanced developers and that of beginning users is widening and that in production environments there are inevitably constraints not found in the laboratory, where these applications work so well. These constraints are not just a matter of the “real world” failing to catch up with the laborator…
Aggressive Technology in a Century of Industrial Disasters
When the science of humanity turns its attention toward industrial civilization, it should consider not only the condition of industrial producers, which has been the staple of industrial anthropology in works such as those by June Nash (We Eat the Mines and the Mines Eat Us: Dependency and Exploitation in Bolivian Tin Mines. New York: Columbia University Press. 1979) and Aihwa Ong, (Spirits of Resistance and Capitalist Discipline: Factory Women …
Seldom Ask, Never Tell: Labor and Discourse in Appalachia
Seldom Ask, Never Tell: Labor and Discourse in Appalachia. Anita Puckett. Oxford. Oxford University Press, 2000. xv+ 309 pp., figures, tables, appendices, notes, references, index
Creating the Land of the Sky: Tourism and Society in Western North Carolina
Rethinking Commodification: Cases and Readings in Law and Culture
Rethinking Commodification: Cases and Readings in Law and Culture. Martha M. Ertmanand Joan C. Williams, eds. New York. New York University Press, 2005. 450 pp
Technological Peripheralization
Technological gaps in large-scale systems, whether ancient empires or the modern world system, are millenia old and are usually viewed in terms of variable rates of innovation and diffusion. When overlaid with large-scale, tightly coupled systems, such as air transport, pharmaceutical regimes, power grids, industrial supply chains, or food supply networks, these mismatches frequently have adverse consequences for the performance of the system. Th…
Creating a Culture of Enterprise Cybersecurity
In this article I describe the fundamental dimensions of a security culture, a concept that builds on the experience of “safety culture” in several high-hazard industries. After outlining the concept and subtleties of corporate culture, I apply these concepts to issues of security, focusing on issues of trust, identification and authentication in complex environments. These issues become more challenging in virtual environments, as familiar token…
Horizons of Business Anthropology in a World of Flexible Accumulation
Classically, anthropology supplied a cultural critique, by contrasting the Noble Savage to contemporary institutions and exposing the effects of structures of authority. This understanding of humanity was expanded a hundred years ago by Boas's embrace of cultural and linguistic variety within a common humanity. Similarly, the classical role for business anthropology and other forms of applied anthropology has been to identify areas in contemporar…
Deep Diversity
.
The Ethical Epistemes of Anthropology and Economics
This article examines the separate epistemologies of anthropology and neoclassical economics, suggesting that both epistemologies are tied to and represent ethical stances. After discussing the differences between morality and ethics, it suggests that the epistemologies of both disciplines are rooted in colonial encounters. Although numerous states and empires had previously encountered populations on their peripheries, the European colonial enco…
Cultural Change Management in Organizations from Competing Perspectives
Since the 1980s, it has generally been accepted that corporations have cultures, and that corporate culture bears an important, if poorly understood, relationship to corporate performance. Figuring out how to measure, fine-tune, and adjust corporate culture has been a cottage industry within management consulting ever since, employing numerous psychologists, sociologists, management theorists, communication specialists, and occasionally anthropol…
Technology
As a key word for both anthropology and popular usage, the term “technology” contains multiple and at times inconsistent meanings. An anthropological perspective on technology is presented in this entry, which reviews exemplary studies and identifies recurrent themes of anthropology's relationship to science and technology studies, the bounding of the term technology, critiques of technology, the relationship of technology to materiality, and the…
Sociology (16 works) · Political science (15 works) · Anthropology (11 works) · Computer Science (11 works) · Epistemology (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Geography (8 works) · History (8 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Appalachia (6 works)