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Design Anthropology

DOI: 10.4324/9781003358930-5

Design anthropology is an emerging transdisciplinary field that offers anthropologists a unique form of knowing, doing, and collaborating on concepts that transform people’s lives. As a subdiscipline of anthropology, and one of the most prominent fields of business anthropology,1 it is attaining salience among practitioners with the development of its own concepts, methods, and research practices. Moreover, design anthropology has evolved its own distinct style and practice of knowledge production that has helped in theorizing mainstream anthropology. They both borrow methods and challenges from each other as they contribute to mutual development. Even as design anthropology comes into its ...

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