Advancing the Value of Ethnography

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How to Talk about Money: Ethnographic Approaches to Financial Life

How to Talk about Money: Ethnographic Approaches to Financial Life

On 1 June, 2012, I arrived at the British Museum to attend the opening of its newly renovated Citi Money Gallery. This was an exciting moment for me: inside was a display of money-related objects and images from Haiti that I collected with Heather Horst and Espelencia Baptiste for a research...

Rethinking Financial Literacy with Design Anthropology

Rethinking Financial Literacy with Design Anthropology

Marietta is 61 years old. She takes care of her adult son (unemployed) and her daughter-in-law (disabled), both of whom live with her in a simple 3-bedroom house on the wrong side of the freeway. Her rent is sky-high, because in Silicon Valley rents are crazy on both sides of the freeway. Marietta...