I’ve got a workplace puzzle: would you please help me solve it?
In a previous World of Work post, I said that introducing anthropology to new audiences should include interesting stories. I have found that lecturing about my work experience is not particularly engaging for high-school and college students. My engineering career is a big domain jump for many of them. Scenarios emphasize the breadth of anthropological application and encourage students to offer their own perspectives. This post shares how I used scenarios about business anthropology to engage a high-school audience. The Scenarios and Discussion I used anthropological and business terms to develop the scenarios in Table 1. The teacher divided the class [...]


