EAN: 9789812875600

IDENTITY AT WORK - ERIC OLMEDO GEBUNDEN

This book investigates the interface of ethnicity with occupation  empirically observed in
luxury international hotels in Kuala Lumpur  Malaysia. It employs the two main disciplines of
anthropology and sociology in order to understand the root causes and meaning of ethnicity at
work within the hospitality industry sector. More specifically  it observes social change in a
multi-ethnic and non-secular society through an ethnographic study located in a micro
organisation: the Grand Hotel. At the individual level  this research shows how identity shifts
and transformation can be mediated through the consumption and manipulation of food at the
workplace. In addition  it combines an ambitious theoretical discussion on the concept of
ethnicity together with empirical data that highlights how ethnicity is lived on an everyday
basis at a workplace manifesting the dynamics of cultural  religious and ethnic diversity. The
book presents the quantitative and qualitative findings of two complementary surveys and
pursues an interdisciplinary approach  as it integrates methodologies from the sociology of
organisations with classic fieldwork methods borrowed from ethnology  while combining French
and Anglo-Saxon schools of thoughts on questions of identity and ethnicity. The results of the
cultural contact occurring in a westernised pocket of the global labour market ¿ in which
social practices derive from the headquarters located in a society where ethnicity is
self-ascribed ¿ with Malaysian social actors to whom ethnicity is assigned will be of
particular interest for social scientists and general readers alike.

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