Cynthia Sear
Biographic Data
| ID | 926898 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cynthia Sear |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cynthia |
| FAMILY NAME | Sear |
| SIGNATURE | SEAR C |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Melbourne |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9694-4249 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
On Becoming Unstuck
In Australia, promotional competitions are a common form of advertising, used by companies to encourage purchase, foster brand loyalty, and build market research databases. While many people enter these competitions casually and infrequently, some people, known as 'compers', enter regularly and diligently. This article explores the affective benefits associated with entering competitions through ethnography with members of the comping website lot…
Beyond Anthropology's Edges
In recent years, anthropology has become a buzz word in the corporate world. Companies such as Google have hired anthropologists for research and product design while marketing consultancies such as Red Associates have built their brands around anthropological methods. Yet, corporate anthropologists such as myself occupy an uneasy space within anthropology. Despite the discipline's internal commitment to reflexivity of its complicity in broader h…
Porous Bodies
The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has changed the way we imagine and experience our bodily boundaries. While previously we may have believed our body to be discrete and bounded by our skin, the latest medical advice has awakened us to the porous nature of our bodies. The virus, we have learnt, may enter our body through our mouths, nose and eyeballs via the surfaces that we touch and through the air that we breathe. In this article, I employ au…
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Porous Bodies
The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has changed the way we imagine and experience our bodily boundaries. While previously we may have believed our body to be discrete and bounded by our skin, the latest medical advice has awakened us to the porous nature of our bodies. The virus, we have learnt, may enter our body through our mouths, nose and eyeballs via the surfaces that we touch and through the air that we breathe. In this article, I employ au…
Beyond Anthropology's Edges
In recent years, anthropology has become a buzz word in the corporate world. Companies such as Google have hired anthropologists for research and product design while marketing consultancies such as Red Associates have built their brands around anthropological methods. Yet, corporate anthropologists such as myself occupy an uneasy space within anthropology. Despite the discipline's internal commitment to reflexivity of its complicity in broader h…
On Becoming Unstuck
In Australia, promotional competitions are a common form of advertising, used by companies to encourage purchase, foster brand loyalty, and build market research databases. While many people enter these competitions casually and infrequently, some people, known as 'compers', enter regularly and diligently. This article explores the affective benefits associated with entering competitions through ethnography with members of the comping website lot…
Anthropology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Ethnography (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · 2019-20 coronavirus outbreak (1 works) · Advertising (1 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (1 works)