I am interested in this project. I hold an earned doctorate (Ph.D.) in Anthropology and Education and practice applied anthropology as a contract consult, working in areas of social program evalution in the Four-Corners region of the US.
The Four Corners are where Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico and Utah come together and is also the location of the largest (Navajo) Indian Reservation in the US. There are many other Reservations in the region as well. My experience in the cross cultural and culture-to-culture milieu includes regular narrative comparison, especially with regard to interpretation for evalution of programs.
Perhaps my experience would be useful for your project.
Best Wishes,
Clara Martinez

I am currently conducting research in Saudi Arabia. My methodolgy uses Narrative Inquiry as a vehicle in my University classroom setting to examine cross-cultural issues of religious ideology and other facets of Saudi life. Since my Ph.D. is in Language, Literacy, and Sociocultural Studies (with emphasis in Semiotics and neo-Vygotskian theory,) I probably don't meet your Anthropological requirements in the strictest sense.

I can, however, attest to the qualifications of Dr. Martinez, whose comments I have just noted in her recent entry on your site. I had the good fortune of receiving her instruction during the acquisition of one of my Master's degrees. My subsequent years of teaching and collecting data in the remote regions of the Navajo Reservation, and any successes I might have experienced along the way, are a direct result of her expertise.

Thanks for volunteering, will happily welcome you both to the project
Jay - I attempted to email you but it bounced back so if you can send me an email it would be appreciated.

Dave

I would be interested in working with you on this. I hold a Ph.D. in Social Anthropology from Durham University - on tribe and state in Iran. I attended the Accreditation course in London last spring. I also atended your session at IDS in Sussex. I spent about 20 years teaching and doing research/consultancy in the Centre for Development Studies at Swansea University, before joining the World Bank as a Social Development professional in the South Asia region. I retired from 15 years with international financial institutions last year. I am based in London and would be happy to help if appropriate.

Ineresting project! I emailed you, but I'm not sure if you've received it? Anyway, I am a social anthropologist working in Norway within a larger IT company (450 employees in Norway and Sweden). I work primarily as a concept developer at an early stage, and do “mini”-fieldworks in relation with development of all sorts of information technology, but mostly intra- and internet portals. I reveal how users of IT systems work, understand and perceive meanings in their unique contexts and what symbols their use during these processes. I use a great deal of Elanor Rosch’ theory of prototypes in my work to reveal how my informants classify their surroundings and how meaning is related to concepts and symbols.

I hold my mastersdegree (norvegian hovedfag actually, all together 6 years of study) from University of Oslo (in 2000) and my fieldwork is a qualitative reception analysis of documentary/ethnographic films made for television. Inspired from my earlier studies at University of Copenhagen in Denmark, within media and film, I was interested in using reception analysis at my fieldwork and I compare the relation between the ethnographic film as a text and the perceiver of the text. What had narrative to say for understanding, identification and successful communication? As such I place myself as a cognitive and symbolic anthropologist concerned of how and where meaning is established and how elements carry of meaning. Inspired by Peter Hervik, Cathrine Lutz and Jane Collins and their work concerning Reading National Geographic, Roy Wagner and his model of meaning established as a process between micro and macrocosmos (Symbols that stands for themselves), Clifford Geertz (and symbolic anthropology as such), Liebes and Katz and their narrative focus of retelling stories and other media related literature as Fiske, Saussure, Peirce, Ang Lee, Sonia Livingstone and other communication studies and gestalt theory as such I believe I have give some important "meta-data" about my theoretical approach :-)

Please let me know if participating in your review panel is not outdated and still of interest.