Recent Papers/Presentations

Although most of our time has been spent in finishing our next book (Busy Bodies), we have continued to do ethnographic research and have presented papers on topics ranging from health choices in Silicon Valley to workforce issues. We are also including more student papers in which classroom assignments generate new knowledge.

Presentation at the 2004 Southwest Anthropological Association meeting.

             Reinventing Therapeutic Expectations
             in Silicon Valley
                   J.A. English-Lueck

Paper/poster presented at the 2003 American Anthropological Association  meeting.

             Number Eight Fencing Wire:
             New Zealand, Cultural Innovation
             and the Global Silicon Network
                   J.A. English-Lueck

            Family Models, Model Families
                   Darrah, C.N.

Paper presented at the 2003 Conference on Workplace/Workforce Mismatch: Work, Family, Health and Well-Being.

            Anthropology and the Workplace/Workforce
            Mismatch
                   Darrah, C.N.

Paper presented at the Spring 2003 IT & Globalization Symposium.

            Rites of Production:
            Technopoles and the Theater of Work
                   J.A. English-Lueck

Paper presented at the 2002 American Anthropological Association  meeting.
        Published in Anthropology News as “Shock-Absorbing and
        Sense-Making: American Families and a Public Anthropology.”

            Anthropologists and Middle Class Working
            Families: Framing the Context of Inquiry
                   Darrah, C.N., English-Lueck, J.A., and
                   Freeman, J.M.

While the Institute for the Futures’ project reports are proprietary, they occasionally release portions to the Internet. One of the collaborative projects that we have done with IFTF has been released and may be found on the IFTF site.

           Networks in Use, SR-738