Ken C Erickson
Biographic Data
| ID | 82581 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ken C Erickson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ken C |
| FAMILY NAME | Erickson |
| SIGNATURE | ERICKSON K C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Missouri–Kansas City |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 86 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
From Stranger to Neighbor
I'll leave the key for you on the bed." Ellie said
Personal Printers and Ink in São Paulo and Recife
Team ethnography for a desktop printer manufacturer in two Brazilian cities on desktop printers and printing is reported here. Our team aimed to resolve an initial puzzle about printers and ink and explored what was going on with the desktop printers as they were acquired, used, and maintained. Our work expanded to encompass the LAN house, small shops, often operated by entrepreneurs, that provide access to the Internet and to printing. The resea…
Cheese in Chijnaya
Individual entrepreneurship and social entrepreneurship may be more common both in daily life and in the research literature, but community- based entrepreneurship also plays an important role in economic development. We present a case study of community entrepreneurship in a rural area of the Andes, where the community of Chijnaya operates a successful cheese production business. Buying milk from its farmer members in the community, the business…
Locating Deviance
Success despite the Silos
A review of the literature on silos in organizations reveals that they are a metaphor to signal dysfunction and difficulty. To explore the range of factors that come into play when projects in an organization demand interaction and support across silos, we present examples from three organizations: an intimate apparel company, a global automotive firm, and a hospital. We find similar problems and patterns within this ethnographic exploration of s…
Why We Love the Recession ... Sort Of
Shirley Fiske and Niel Tashima are contributing editors of “Anthropology Works,” the AAA Committee on Practicing, Applied and Public Interest Anthropology column in Anthropology News
Consumer Anthropology
Doing Team Ethnography
And a River Went Out of Eden Getting Started Getting There - Together The Baggage We Bring The Trips We Take The Places We Go Packing It In Writing It Up and Getting It Out the Door To Team, or Not to Team
Postal Modernism
Doing Team Ethnography
Views from the Plate and the Plant
The Four Fields in Practice
Microcomputers and Managed Anthropological Teamwork (MAT)
This December marks the end of fieldwork for The Changing Relations Project, a two-year ethnographic research project funded by the Ford Foundation involving six communities across the United States. The project's goal is to understand the dynamics of cooperation between newly arrived refugees and the other residents of U. S. communities. Garden City, Kansas, population about 23,000, is one of six sites and the only relatively rural community inc…
Candidates for Governing Council Member-at-large State A
Vietnamese household Organization in Garden city, Kansas
This paper outlines the household composition of a sample of Vietnamese households in a .high plains packing house town. The Vietnamese community in Garden City, Kansas is described and reasons for its presence in Southwestern Kansas are noted. The Vietnamese households are found to contain more men than women and are discovered to contain primarily collateral relationships built around a nuclear core. The daily round in a Vietnamese household in…
Doing Team Ethnography
Doing Team Ethnography
And a River Went Out of Eden Getting Started Getting There - Together The Baggage We Bring The Trips We Take The Places We Go Packing It In Writing It Up and Getting It Out the Door To Team, or Not to Team
Cheese in Chijnaya
Individual entrepreneurship and social entrepreneurship may be more common both in daily life and in the research literature, but community- based entrepreneurship also plays an important role in economic development. We present a case study of community entrepreneurship in a rural area of the Andes, where the community of Chijnaya operates a successful cheese production business. Buying milk from its farmer members in the community, the business…
Postal Modernism
Vietnamese household Organization in Garden city, Kansas
This paper outlines the household composition of a sample of Vietnamese households in a .high plains packing house town. The Vietnamese community in Garden City, Kansas is described and reasons for its presence in Southwestern Kansas are noted. The Vietnamese households are found to contain more men than women and are discovered to contain primarily collateral relationships built around a nuclear core. The daily round in a Vietnamese household in…
Microcomputers and Managed Anthropological Teamwork (MAT)
This December marks the end of fieldwork for The Changing Relations Project, a two-year ethnographic research project funded by the Ford Foundation involving six communities across the United States. The project's goal is to understand the dynamics of cooperation between newly arrived refugees and the other residents of U. S. communities. Garden City, Kansas, population about 23,000, is one of six sites and the only relatively rural community inc…
Candidates for Governing Council Member-at-large State A
The Four Fields in Practice
Views from the Plate and the Plant
Doing Team Ethnography
Doing Team Ethnography
And a River Went Out of Eden Getting Started Getting There - Together The Baggage We Bring The Trips We Take The Places We Go Packing It In Writing It Up and Getting It Out the Door To Team, or Not to Team
Postal Modernism
Consumer Anthropology
Why We Love the Recession ... Sort Of
Shirley Fiske and Niel Tashima are contributing editors of “Anthropology Works,” the AAA Committee on Practicing, Applied and Public Interest Anthropology column in Anthropology News
Success despite the Silos
A review of the literature on silos in organizations reveals that they are a metaphor to signal dysfunction and difficulty. To explore the range of factors that come into play when projects in an organization demand interaction and support across silos, we present examples from three organizations: an intimate apparel company, a global automotive firm, and a hospital. We find similar problems and patterns within this ethnographic exploration of s…
Locating Deviance
Personal Printers and Ink in São Paulo and Recife
Team ethnography for a desktop printer manufacturer in two Brazilian cities on desktop printers and printing is reported here. Our team aimed to resolve an initial puzzle about printers and ink and explored what was going on with the desktop printers as they were acquired, used, and maintained. Our work expanded to encompass the LAN house, small shops, often operated by entrepreneurs, that provide access to the Internet and to printing. The resea…
Cheese in Chijnaya
Individual entrepreneurship and social entrepreneurship may be more common both in daily life and in the research literature, but community- based entrepreneurship also plays an important role in economic development. We present a case study of community entrepreneurship in a rural area of the Andes, where the community of Chijnaya operates a successful cheese production business. Buying milk from its farmer members in the community, the business…
From Stranger to Neighbor
I'll leave the key for you on the bed." Ellie said
Sociology (12 works) · Computer Science (10 works) · Anthropology (5 works) · Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture (5 works) · Citation (5 works) · Ethnography (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Library science (4 works) · Art history (3 works) · Business (3 works)