In attempts to gain a wider understanding of the social worlds they encounter, anthropologists have exhorted their colleagues to “study up” and pay attention to wealthy and powerful people, not just those at society's margins. Anthropology has met this call. However, anthropologists could stand to be more forthcoming in explaining readily generalizable research strategies for studying people who are difficult to access. This article offers a brief methodological introduction to the literature on studying up and the anthropology of finance, and then shares a sampling of failures and successes from my own two‐year research, using private equity investors as one case of accessing an elite network. I suggest anthropologists are best served in finding multiple public sites and building informant networks with people from these sites.

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如何学习不想学习的人：学习的实践性思考

为了更广泛地了解他们所遇到的社会世界，人类学家敦促他们的同事“研究”并关注富裕而有权力的人，而不仅仅是在社会边缘的人。人类学满足了这个要求。但是，人类学家可能会更乐于解释易于研究的通用策略，以研究难以接近的人们。本文为研究和金融人类学的文献提供了简要的方法论上的介绍，然后分享了我自己为期两年的研究的失败和成功的示例，并使用私募股权投资者作为访问精英网络的案例。我建议人类学家在找到多个公共站点并与这些站点中的人员建立信息网络方面最好。