Key influences, teachers that might have been important, ideas, books, you know, what sorts of experiences and things did you encounter as you became an anthropologist that were formative.īRIODY: Yeah, I think the first experience with global cultures came well before I was at Wheaton. NOLAN: So, tell about your education in anthropology. While I was in college, I was at Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts, and there I fell in love with anthropology, and haven't turned back. And I, ended up, passing the French baccalaureate which ended up being quite helpful to me because I only returned to the U.S.
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And there were five children in the family, plus I made six. And strangely, I was sent to France where I lived for a year with a wonderful family in the North they lived near the Belgian border. And I thought to myself, "Boy, that's what I want to do." So, I applied for the program, when I was a senior in high school, and I was lucky enough to be accepted into it. A young college student came into my high school French class and talked about her experience on this program. When I was in my, I think, my sophomore year, I heard about a program called American Field Service. I went to Catholic school through grade eight, then switched to the public school system, because we really didn't have the means for me to attend a parochial high school. I was raised with a grandmother in the home. My mother had always worked and had lived with her mother, as was often common among Irish American families. So, we had older parents, but parents had quite a bit of life experience. They married late in life, and my mother had me when she was forty-two, and my sister when she was forty-five. Let me start with the most general question that we have which is where and under what family circumstances were you raised? How'd you get started?īRIODY: I was raised in Beverly, Massachusetts by two Irish Catholic parents. She's going to answer, I'll follow up as needed. I'm going to ask questions in a fairly general way. I have a number of questions for Elizabeth. And I'm going to be interviewing Elizabeth, for the Society for Applied Anthropology Oral History Project. We are at Purdue University, and I am in the company of Elizabeth Briody. The transcript was edited by John van Willigen
This interview was done by Riall Nolan at Purdue University. Textor Award for Excellence in Anticipatory Anthropology of the American Anthropological Association. Her accomplishments have been recognized by the SfAA’s Bronislaw Malinowski Award and the Robert B. She has published extensively in support of anthropology in business. She completed her PhD at the University of Texas at Austin. Briody developed her career in business anthropology as a senior researcher at General Motors and her consulting firm Cultural Keys. Working at General Motors, the Anthropology Careers Video, and Consulting in Organizational Culture: An SfAA Oral History Interview with Elizabeth K.
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