Michael G Powell
Biographic Data
| ID | 197927 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael G Powell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael G |
| FAMILY NAME | Powell |
| SIGNATURE | POWELL M G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rice University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Sound of Friction: How to Do Things with Listening
This paper is an examination of ethnographic listening from an ethnographic perspective. Its guiding theme is that while listening is typically understood as a passive method or pathway to receive information and take notice of the world, ethnographic listening is unique and potentially productive. Despite recognizing the foundational nature of listening to our work, professional ethnographers typically do not highlight listening as part of our w…
Re-Imagining Futures in Business Anthropology
Throughout this long season of suffering and anxiety, the entire world needs comforting. At the same time, I have found that the pandemic has been a moment of opportunity for professional anthropologists in the business world. That's not to say the pandemic has been entirely beneficial, easy, or healthy, of course, for anthropologists or anyone else
Rebranding a South Los Angeles Corner Store: The Unique Logic of Retail Brands
Retail brands are important mediators of culture and value that help us understand contemporary consumption. Drawing on a collaborative ethnographic approach to a corner store-rebranding project in South Los Angeles, we demonstrate the ways in which physical retail spaces and their curated product mix can shape specific types of shopping experiences and behaviors. Building on recent studies of brand, we argue that retail curation is another impor…
Media, Mediation and the Curatorial Value of Professional Anthropologists
This paper seeks to broaden the discipline of professional anthropology by considering the role of the anthropologist as a curator and a guide for the mediation of cultural symbols, artifacts and products in and among the organizations we work for or with. It employs two case studies of product curation activities, guided by strategic insights shaped in part by a professional cultural anthropologist. The paper builds on prior discussions and insi…
Anthropologist as Prognosticator: Gillian Tett and the Credit Derivatives Market
The Uses of Professional Networking in the Emerging Methodology for an Anthropology of Public Policy
By considering multiple perspectives on the problem of networking and networks in public policy circles, as well as the wider professional world, this article aims to both draw out and blur boundaries and definitions among multiple levels of networking as an analytic concept, a fieldwork method and a practice observed among policymakers. In making this distinction and explaining it in relation to theorisations of fieldwork rapport and 'complicity…
Unruly Experts: Methods and Forms of Collaboration in the Anthropology of Public Policy
We never seek out frustration, but it almost always finds us. Seasoned field researchers, anthropologists pride themselves on their ability to handle life's curve balls, from visa problems to cultural misunderstandings to difficulties in gaining access to informants. These curve balls go hand in hand with the home runs: all are moments in fieldwork, wherever, however, and among whomever conducted, and each moment has a story
When Nature Goes Public: The Making and Unmaking of Bioprospecting in Mexico
From Conspiracy Theories in the Incipient New World Order of the 1990s to Regimes of Transparency Now
Todd Sanders and Harry West (eds). Transparency and Conspiracy: Ethnographies of Suspicion in the New World Order. Durham: Duke University Press, 2003. 328 pp. This volume is typical of the form of many collections produced by anthropologists, and it has both the virtues and limitations that can be attributed to this form. The editors (here, Sanders and West) and sometimes invited commentators (here, John and Jean Comaroff) provide a conceptual g…
Unruly Experts: Methods and Forms of Collaboration in the Anthropology of Public Policy
We never seek out frustration, but it almost always finds us. Seasoned field researchers, anthropologists pride themselves on their ability to handle life's curve balls, from visa problems to cultural misunderstandings to difficulties in gaining access to informants. These curve balls go hand in hand with the home runs: all are moments in fieldwork, wherever, however, and among whomever conducted, and each moment has a story
From Conspiracy Theories in the Incipient New World Order of the 1990s to Regimes of Transparency Now
Todd Sanders and Harry West (eds). Transparency and Conspiracy: Ethnographies of Suspicion in the New World Order. Durham: Duke University Press, 2003. 328 pp. This volume is typical of the form of many collections produced by anthropologists, and it has both the virtues and limitations that can be attributed to this form. The editors (here, Sanders and West) and sometimes invited commentators (here, John and Jean Comaroff) provide a conceptual g…
Media, Mediation and the Curatorial Value of Professional Anthropologists
This paper seeks to broaden the discipline of professional anthropology by considering the role of the anthropologist as a curator and a guide for the mediation of cultural symbols, artifacts and products in and among the organizations we work for or with. It employs two case studies of product curation activities, guided by strategic insights shaped in part by a professional cultural anthropologist. The paper builds on prior discussions and insi…
The Uses of Professional Networking in the Emerging Methodology for an Anthropology of Public Policy
By considering multiple perspectives on the problem of networking and networks in public policy circles, as well as the wider professional world, this article aims to both draw out and blur boundaries and definitions among multiple levels of networking as an analytic concept, a fieldwork method and a practice observed among policymakers. In making this distinction and explaining it in relation to theorisations of fieldwork rapport and 'complicity…
Rebranding a South Los Angeles Corner Store: The Unique Logic of Retail Brands
Retail brands are important mediators of culture and value that help us understand contemporary consumption. Drawing on a collaborative ethnographic approach to a corner store-rebranding project in South Los Angeles, we demonstrate the ways in which physical retail spaces and their curated product mix can shape specific types of shopping experiences and behaviors. Building on recent studies of brand, we argue that retail curation is another impor…
Anthropologist as Prognosticator: Gillian Tett and the Credit Derivatives Market
From Conspiracy Theories in the Incipient New World Order of the 1990s to Regimes of Transparency Now
Todd Sanders and Harry West (eds). Transparency and Conspiracy: Ethnographies of Suspicion in the New World Order. Durham: Duke University Press, 2003. 328 pp. This volume is typical of the form of many collections produced by anthropologists, and it has both the virtues and limitations that can be attributed to this form. The editors (here, Sanders and West) and sometimes invited commentators (here, John and Jean Comaroff) provide a conceptual g…
When Nature Goes Public: The Making and Unmaking of Bioprospecting in Mexico
The Uses of Professional Networking in the Emerging Methodology for an Anthropology of Public Policy
By considering multiple perspectives on the problem of networking and networks in public policy circles, as well as the wider professional world, this article aims to both draw out and blur boundaries and definitions among multiple levels of networking as an analytic concept, a fieldwork method and a practice observed among policymakers. In making this distinction and explaining it in relation to theorisations of fieldwork rapport and 'complicity…
Unruly Experts: Methods and Forms of Collaboration in the Anthropology of Public Policy
We never seek out frustration, but it almost always finds us. Seasoned field researchers, anthropologists pride themselves on their ability to handle life's curve balls, from visa problems to cultural misunderstandings to difficulties in gaining access to informants. These curve balls go hand in hand with the home runs: all are moments in fieldwork, wherever, however, and among whomever conducted, and each moment has a story
Anthropologist as Prognosticator: Gillian Tett and the Credit Derivatives Market
Media, Mediation and the Curatorial Value of Professional Anthropologists
This paper seeks to broaden the discipline of professional anthropology by considering the role of the anthropologist as a curator and a guide for the mediation of cultural symbols, artifacts and products in and among the organizations we work for or with. It employs two case studies of product curation activities, guided by strategic insights shaped in part by a professional cultural anthropologist. The paper builds on prior discussions and insi…
Rebranding a South Los Angeles Corner Store: The Unique Logic of Retail Brands
Retail brands are important mediators of culture and value that help us understand contemporary consumption. Drawing on a collaborative ethnographic approach to a corner store-rebranding project in South Los Angeles, we demonstrate the ways in which physical retail spaces and their curated product mix can shape specific types of shopping experiences and behaviors. Building on recent studies of brand, we argue that retail curation is another impor…
Re-Imagining Futures in Business Anthropology
Throughout this long season of suffering and anxiety, the entire world needs comforting. At the same time, I have found that the pandemic has been a moment of opportunity for professional anthropologists in the business world. That's not to say the pandemic has been entirely beneficial, easy, or healthy, of course, for anthropologists or anyone else
The Sound of Friction: How to Do Things with Listening
This paper is an examination of ethnographic listening from an ethnographic perspective. Its guiding theme is that while listening is typically understood as a passive method or pathway to receive information and take notice of the world, ethnographic listening is unique and potentially productive. Despite recognizing the foundational nature of listening to our work, professional ethnographers typically do not highlight listening as part of our w…
Sociology (7 works) · Anthropology (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Ethnography (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (2 works) · Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture (2 works)