Collaborative Ethnography in Business Environments

Increasingly anthropologists work outside academia with or for corporations, and must collaborate with others in the corporation—with management, vendors and consumers of differing orientations. In this, ethnographers encounter new frames of knowledge, deal with power relations and get caught up in emotional quandaries. This volume wonderfully illustrates the kinds of entanglements business anthropologists routinely encounter in their work. The range of authors presented here will be especially helpful to business anthropologists, students, marketers and consumer researchers, offering diverse perspectives for understanding consuming culture.

– Timothy de Waal Malefyt, Fordham University School of Business, USA

Collaborative Ethnography in Business Environments is one of those rare edited volumes we should all have on our shelf. McCabe treats us to an eloquent analysis of knowledge, power, and emotion in collaborative work, interwoven with examples from her own considerable experience. The masterful and beautifully written introduction alone would make the volume a must-have for scholars and students, but its coup de grace is that the authors gathered together in this volume are established names working at the intersection of anthropology and business.

– Patricia Sunderland, Practica, LLC; co-editor of Handbook of Anthropology in Business