By Eric Olmedo
This e-book investigates the interface of ethnicity with profession, empirically saw in luxurious overseas lodges in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It employs the 2 major disciplines of anthropology and sociology with the intention to comprehend the basis factors and which means of ethnicity at paintings in the hospitality quarter. extra particularly, it observes social switch in a multi-ethnic and non-secular society via an ethnographic research positioned in a micro company: the Grand lodge. on the person point, this examine indicates how identification shifts and transformation may be mediated during the intake and manipulation of nutrients on the workplace. moreover, it combines an formidable theoretical dialogue at the proposal of ethnicity including empirical information that highlights how ethnicity is lived on a daily foundation at a office manifesting the dynamics of cultural, spiritual and ethnic range. The publication offers the quantitative and qualitative findings of 2 complementary surveys and pursues an interdisciplinary method, because it integrates methodologies from the sociology of businesses with vintage fieldwork tools borrowed from ethnology, whereas combining French and Anglo-Saxon colleges of concepts on questions of id and ethnicity. the result of the cultural touch taking place in a westernised pocket of the worldwide labour industry – during which social practices derive from the headquarters positioned in a society the place ethnicity is self-ascribed – with Malaysian social actors to whom ethnicity is assigned should be of specific curiosity for social scientists and basic readers alike.
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