Organisational Anthropology Doing Ethnography in and Among Complex Organisations
, by Garsten, Christina; Nyqvist, AnetteNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780745332475 | 0745332471
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 5/7/2013
Organisational Anthropology is about doing ethnographic fieldwork in and among different types of complex organisations. The book focuses on the process of initiating contact, establishing rapport and gaining the trust of the organisation's members. *BR**BR*The contributors work from the premise that doing fieldwork in an organisation shares essential characteristics with fieldwork in more 'classical' anthropological environments, but that it also poses some particular challenges to the ethnographer. These include the organisations ideological or financial interests, protection of resources and competition between organisations. *BR**BR*Organisational Anthropology brings together and highlights crucial aspects of doing anthropology in contemporary complex settings, and will have wide appeal to students, researchers and academics in anthropology.