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Photo by Tim Stief on Unsplash On the first Tuesday of the month from June 2019 through March 2020, anthropologists working in user experience (or UX, a broad term covering many aspects of design, product usability and improvement, consumer research, and related areas) have posted detailed information and reflections in this space on this growing […]
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September 16, 2020
“Silos,” an agricultural analogy referencing self-contained grain storage units, is frequently applied to groups, organizations, disciplinary knowledge, and institutional types to reflect differences in association or affiliation with accompanying differences (perceived or actual) in perspectives and behavior. Within anthropology, for example:
- one group of anthropologists works in practice while their colleagues work in the academy;
- another group enjoys tenure while lecturers and adjuncts are on yearly or semester contracts;
- a group of graduate students from an ivy league university considers itself to be distinct from their peers at a state university;
- another group of graduate students is being trained in the “scientific method” while others are trained in more humanistic paradigms.
Siloing is problematic…
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