Jovan Maud
I have never really considered myself to be an applied anthropologist. While completing my PhD on something as ‘unapplied’ as Thai Buddhism I have taken on a role as the co-ordinator of the Applied Anthropology program at Macquarie University and have gradually developed an interest in the way the discipline is increasingly being applied in ‘non-traditional’ areas: in product design, marketing and so on. My posts to this blog represent this interest and my desire to understand the manner in which anthropology is developing in response to new social and economic forces.
4 July, 2007 at 4:56 am
[...] ban on female circumcision in Egypt Jovan brought to my attention a Yahoo! news item reporting that Egypt has just banned all female [...]
15 January, 2008 at 10:38 am
[...] is. When a student pronounced one of the class assignments “a bit naf,” I ran to Jovan to ask him what it meant. He soon delighted in feeding me baffling colloquialisms. (The result [...]