EAN: 9783319843711

ANTHROPOLOGY IN THE MINING INDUSTRY - GLYNN COC...

This book outlines how Rio Tinto-one of the world's largest miners-redesigned and rebuilt
relationships with communities after the rejection of the company during Bougainville's Civil
War. Glynn Cochrane recalls how he and colleagues utilized their training as social
anthropologists to help the company to earn an industry leadership reputation and competitive
business advantage by establishing the case for long-term  on the ground  smoke-in-the-eyes
interaction with people in local communities around the world  despite the appeal of maximal
efficiency techniques and quicker  easier answers. Instead of using ready-made  formulaic
toolkits  Rio Tinto relied on community practitioners to try to accommodate local preferences
and cultural differences. This volume provides a step-by-step account of how mining companies
can use social anthropological and ethnographic insights to design ways of working with local
communities  especially in times of upheaval.

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