Pub Date : 2008-09-01DOI: 10.1111/J.1556-4797.2008.00018.X
B. Jordan
In the last few years, new collaboration and communication technologies have led to a deterritorialization of work, allowing for the rise of new work- and lifestyles. In this article, I use my own transition from the life of a corporate researcher to that of a multilocal mobile consultant for tracking some of the patterns I see in a changing cultural and economic environment where work and workers are no longer tied to a specific place of work. My main interest lies in identifying some of the behavioral shifts that are happening as people are caught up in and attempt to deal with this changing cultural landscape. Writing as a knowledge worker who now moves regularly from a work–home place in the Silicon Valley of California to another in the tropical lowlands of Costa Rica, I use my personal transition as a lens through which to trace new, emergent patterns of behavior, of values, and of social conventions. I assess the stresses and joys, the upsides and downsides, the challenges and rewards of this work- and lifestyle and identify strategies for making such a life successful and rewarding. Throughout, there emerges an awareness of the ways in which the personal patterns described reflect wider trends and cumulatively illustrate global transformation of workscapes and lifescapes. These types of local patterns in fact constitute the on-the-ground material reality of global processes that initiate and sustain widespread culture change and emergent societal transformations.
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Pub Date : 2008-09-01DOI: 10.1111/J.1556-4797.2008.00020.X
Julia Gluesing
This article draws on personal experiences of remote work that is facilitated by virtual or on-line communication and collaboration technologies. This personal story illustrates how technology, work, and lifecycle coevolve and how the integration of work, family, and friends into the new, virtual workspaces can open up new conceptualizations of personal identity. An identity that is discretely bounded and that is dependent on physical surroundings can give way to one that more closely aligns with the lived experiences of mobile work and life. If we think of identity as multiple, as open to possibility, and as flexibly responsive to multiple cultures and contexts, we can alter our ideas about work and its relationship to our lives in ways that more closely align with today's hybridized, dematerialized and decontextualized world.
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Pub Date : 2008-09-01DOI: 10.1111/J.1556-4797.2008.00022.X
Tracy L. Meerwarth
As a corporate anthropologist who studies how work gets accomplished in the spaces and places workers inhabit, I have become keenly aware of the patterns of behaviors and emotions that arise from my experience as a nomadic worker. The term nomadic comprehends the multiple and geographically distributed sites across a landscape where work gets accomplished. The term suggests a rhythm of movement during which time workers are enabled by technology to pull away from a centralized core and travel across the landscape with homes and work on their backs. In this article, I explore reconceptualizations of physical space (e.g., home, away, and transitional) and the shifting changes in relationships (e.g., with communities, friends), which emerge with my increased mobility. I argue that although the media illustrates the seamlessness and ease of social integration and mobility that technology offers, it is often a distortion of a nomadic worker's reality. Personal conflict and tension often arise when trying to manage culturally valued concepts such as integration and mobility simultaneously. I deconstruct my conflict and identify areas for growth in my experience as a nomadic worker.
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Pub Date : 2008-09-01DOI: 10.1111/J.1556-4797.2008.00019.X
L. Gossett
This article examines the instrumental role that websites play in developing and sustaining a work-related culture for remote and mobile employees that often find themselves working alone or without coworkers from their parent company. More specifically, this article focuses on temporary worker websites, such as http://www.notmydesk.com and http://www.Temp24-7.com, to illustrate how these on-line communities foster a distinctive occupational community for temporary workers. Specific stories, postings, and other information contained on these sites reveals the lived experiences of temporary workers. The author's personal experiences in the industry, combined with examples taken from specific temporary worker websites, illustrate how the remote and mobile nature of this occupation impacts workers both on and off the job.
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Pub Date : 2008-03-19DOI: 10.1525/NAPA.2007.27.1.7
Jennifer Gilroy Hunsecker
This paper reports the findings from a ten-week ethnographic evaluation of Americanos, a traveling exhibit displayed in the fall of 2000 at the Field Museum of Natural History and the Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum in Chicago. Members of Dr. Christina Wasson's undergraduate applied anthropology class at DePaul University designed the research project and conducted interviews with museum patrons on their experience of the exhibit. This paper outlines background information on museum-goers and details methods utilized in the study, class findings, and recommendations resulting from the findings. Findings explore visitors' experiences with the division and physical layout of the exhibit, visitor interaction with text and labels, and the impact visitors' preconceptions had on their experience with the exhibit. It concludes with seven recommendations applicable to improving the quality of both the Americanos experience for visitors as well as future museum exhibitions at the Field Museum and the Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum.
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Pub Date : 2008-01-08DOI: 10.1525/NAPA.2006.26.1.1
Christina Wasson
This volume presents the stories of 11 women anthropologists whose career paths have successfully navigated the terrain of practice. Its overall goal is to help future generations of anthropologists who are initiating careers in practice, both women and men. Students in applied anthropology programs, and others considering careers in practice, are hungry for such information. A second goal is to highlight the contributions and concerns of women practitioners from the perspective of feminist anthropology. Three common threads run across the life histories of these authors: an integrated scholar-practitioner identity; improvisation; and a shared set of building blocks for constructing their lives. Brief histories of four forerunners are provided to provide historical depth. They illustrate the continuing importance of persistence and determination, as well as the possibility of having meaningful and satisfying careers by approaching life and work creatively in the face of various obstacles.
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Pub Date : 2008-01-08DOI: 10.1525/napa.2001.20.1.49
E. Liebow
{"title":"Projects Parse My Work Life","authors":"E. Liebow","doi":"10.1525/napa.2001.20.1.49","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/napa.2001.20.1.49","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":181348,"journal":{"name":"The Annals of Anthropological Practice","volume":"236 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-01-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123775075","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2008-01-08DOI: 10.1525/NAPA.2001.20.1.71
M. Clarke
{"title":"On the Road Again: International Development Consulting","authors":"M. Clarke","doi":"10.1525/NAPA.2001.20.1.71","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/NAPA.2001.20.1.71","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":181348,"journal":{"name":"The Annals of Anthropological Practice","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-01-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125872515","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2008-01-08DOI: 10.1525/NAPA.1989.8.1.27
S. Keefe, Gregory G. Reck, U. M. L. Reck
{"title":"Measuring Ethnicity and Its Political Consequences in a Southern Appalachian High School","authors":"S. Keefe, Gregory G. Reck, U. M. L. Reck","doi":"10.1525/NAPA.1989.8.1.27","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/NAPA.1989.8.1.27","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":181348,"journal":{"name":"The Annals of Anthropological Practice","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-01-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122189718","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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