Description
Book Synopsis Looking at anthropologists at work, this book investigates what kind of morality they perform in their occupations and what the impact of this morality is. The book includes ethnographic studies in four professional arenas: health care, business, management and interdisciplinary research. The discussion is positioned at the intersection of ‘applied or public anthropology’ and ‘the anthropology of ethics’ and analyses the ways in which anthropologists can carry out ‘moral work’ both inside and outside of academia.
Trade Review “The book give many new insights about what the authors name the ‘moral economy’ as well as many ‘aha’ moments for me as an anthropological reader and raises good questions about what is happening to the discipline in a changing world.” • Catherine Haase, Aarhus University
“This was one of the most compelling and insightful volumes of work I’ve engaged with for a long time. The topic of the moral constitution of anthropological practice, and indeed anthropologists themselves, by way of ethnographic studies of anthropologists working outside traditional anthropological university labour settings, is timely, important and incisive, and the chapters rich and well formulated as a whole.” • Melissa Cefkin, Alliance Innovation Lab, Silicon Valley
Table of Contents Introduction: An Ethnography and Anthropology of Anthropologists
Hanne Overgaard Mogensen, Birgitte Gorm Hansen and Morten Axel Pedersen
Chapter 1. Caring for Others: Moral Health Care in the Company of Anthropology
Hanne Overgaard Mogensen
Chapter 2. Doing Morally Acceptable Business: Anthropologists in the World of Consultants
Jazmin Mølgaard Cullen
Chapter 3. Not That Kind of Manager: Moral Work in Anthropological Leadership
Birgitte Gorm Hansen
Chapter 4. Going Native in Data Science: An (Auto) Ethnography of Interdisciplinary Collaboration
Morten Axel Pedersen
Chapter 5. You Win. Forever: Moral Positioning in a Field with No Going Home
Lise Røjskjær Pedersen and Birgitte Gorm Hansen
Chapter 6. Leaving the Church of Anthropology: From Discipline to Profession in Anthropological Praxis
Steffen Jöhncke
Conclusion
Hanne Overgaard Mogensen og Birgitte Gorm Hansen
Index
