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Podcasts & Publications

Podcast Series

Conversations on Consumer Insights and the Customer Experience

Podcast Episode 1: Translating the Voice of the Customer (7MB mp3)

 
 

Podcast Episode 2: Customer Loyalty (6.7MB mp3)

 

Podcast Episode 3: The Brand Relationship (4.7MB mp3)

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Publicity

Daily Rituals of the World, BusinessWeek (May, 2007)

The Science of Desire, BusinessWeek (June, 2006)

Business Week Shines Spotlight on Growth of Ethnography, American Anthropological Association (June, 2006)

 

Papers and Articles

What's Anthropological about Corporate Ethnography? Lessons from the Field, 2004, Association for Consumer Research Conference

From Here to Infinity: How Ethnographic Research Helped Transform Wedding Registry at JCPenney, 2004, IIR Conference

Tying the Knot: Wedding Applied Anthropology to Bridal Registry at JCPenney, 2003, Society for Applied Anthropology

"Mindless Action Sells Research Short" Marketing News, February 2004

"The Home of the Future: An Ethnographic Study of New Information Technologies in the Home," Alladi Venkatesh, Norman Stolzoff, Eric Shih, and Sanjoy Mazumdar. Advances in Consumer Research Vol. 28, M. Gilly and J. Myers-Levy (eds.), 2001, 88-97.

"A Longitudinal Analysis of Computing in the Home Based on census Data 1984-1997," Alladi Venkatesh, Eric Chuan-Fong Shih, and Norman C. Stolzoff; Home Informatics: Information, Technology, and Society, A. Sloane & F. van Rijn (eds.), 2000, 205-215.

 

Books

Wake the Town and Tell the People: Dancehall Culture in Jamaica, Norman C. Stolzoff, Duke University Press (2000)

The Spiritual Traveler—Spain: The Guide to Sacred Sites and Pilgrim Routes in Spain, Beebe Bahrami, Hidden Spring/Paulist Press (2009)

 

Interviews

Why Ethnographic Insight, a conversation about the value of ethnography with Dr. Stolzoff

 

Suggested Reading

  • Connected: The Surprising Power of our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives, Nicholas A. Christakis, Back Bay Books (2011)
  • Energy Autonomy, Hermann Scheer, Earthscan (2007)
  • Network Analysis and Ethnographic Problems, Douglas R. White & Ulla C. Johansen, Lexington Books (2005)
  • Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things, William McDonough & Michael Braungart, North Point Press (2002)
  • Diffusion of Innovations, Everett Rogers, Free Press (1995)
Ethnography Expert Wake the Town and Tell the People - Norman C Stolzoff

"Destined to become a classic."
Donald Hill, American Ethnologist

"Based on 18 months of fieldwork in Kingston, Jamaica, this is the best kind of scholarly writing—careful research driven by a fan's consuming passion. . . ."
Rob Kenner, Vibe Magazine

"The book's real strength is in the vivid and precise details Stolzoff gleaned during months of field research."
Simon Reynolds, The Village Voice


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