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The need for an ethnography of the Nigerian financial sector

The need for an ethnography of the Nigerian financial sector

0 / January 5, 2010 11:15 pm

In the BusinessDay of January 5, 2010 Anthropologist Karen Ho carried out a seventeen-month-long fieldwork on Wall Street, interviewing and observing investment bankers. She first started out working as a rookie management consulting analyst in a hybrid investment and commercial [...]

Anthropology and Finance

Anthropology and Finance

0 / October 14, 2009 5:04 pm

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 [...]

Nigerian Banking Crisis Blog Review

Nigerian Banking Crisis Blog Review

5 / September 3, 2009 7:13 pm

A review by Arin Since the breaking news on what has been dubbed ‘The Friday Bank Massacre’ by one Nigerian newspaper, many Nigerians and friends of Nigeria have, judging by the number of article comments and the thread lengths on [...]