> Anita, Genevieve is a bona fide anthropologist, Ph.D. from Stanford with a
> dissertation on the Carlisle School. She got a job with Intel, trying to help
> them use anthropological techniques to ascertain how people operate in the world
> (not just the US) so they could design computers to match people's needs. This
> is part of that project. Not a bad way to use an anthropology degree.

mitch

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> >ANTHROPOLOGISTS
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> >http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/00/05/29/000529hnhuman.xml
> >Intel anthropologist Genevieve Bell researched shopping by following a
> >group of five women on a shopping spree. It turned out shopping day had
> >a particular ritual. Bell took three basic lessons away from the trip:
> >there are different ways of shopping; shopping is a social activity; shopping
> >is a learned skill, with aspects that are passed on from one person to
> >another.
>
> [Anita's note: Isn't this sociology rather than anthropology?]

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