CounterPunch Weekend Edition March 4 - 6, 2011 The Financial Times' "Anthropologist in America" How Will Gillian Tett Connect With the Natives of the US Left? By BRIAN McKENNA Gillian Tett is an anthropologist on the move. She's worked for a Pakistani non-profit (at 17), covered war in the former Soviet Union and documented Japan's financial fall (Tett, 2003). For her Ph.D. fieldwork in anthropology, Tett studied marriage rituals in Tajikistan. But Tett's greatest anthropological achievement came when she studied "the tribe" of J.P. Morgan, (a global financial services corporation) right in her own backyard of London, England. Tett sleuthed how a group of Gordon Gekko-type hot-shots brought capitalism to its knees. “It was completely mad in places,” said Tett.
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