There is a thing about being so close to something that one does not see it anymore. Anthropologists normally refer to it as going native. You have gone native when you no longer see the obvious things anymore, when the things that an outsider notices stares you in the face but you are no longer able to see them. This [...]

In the BusinessDay of October 13, 2009 The world recently marked a year after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, an incident that has been described by many as the beginning of the global financial crisis. This seems a decent time to take a look at one anthropologist’s take on the crisis.Gillian Tett, a Ph.D in social anthropology from Cambridge University, [...]