Identity at Work Ethnicity, Food & Power in Malaysian Hospitality In
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
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Identity at Work
Ethnicity, Food & Power in Malaysian Hospitality Industry
Identity at Work
Eric Olmedo
Identity at Work Ethnicity, Food & Power in Malaysian Hospitality Industry
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Eric Olmedo KITA, Institute of Ethnic Studies Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Bangi, Selangor Darul Ehsan Malaysia
ISBN 978-981-287-560-0 DOI 10.1007/978-981-287-561-7
ISBN 978-981-287-561-7 (eBook)
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Foreword
Identity at Work is a path-breaking book. It presents an exciting and innovative conceptual framework and an even more exciting set of empirical data rarely excavated by social anthropologists and ethnographers. Conceptually, it is about the sociology of elites, anthropology of work and workplace, phenomenology of ethnic relations and boundaries, collision and collusion of culture and capital in a long-drawn and tired globalisation at the semi-periphery, and the rise and relevance of anthropotechnology as a new analytical tool. Methodologically, it is an interdisciplinary approach at its best. Empirically, because the author is an experienced professional in the hospitality industry as well as a creative and thinking student of social anthropology, he is able to bring together and present a rich corpus of data, conversations and narratives, using the array of rich conceptual tools at his behest, and ultimately a thoroughly credible exciting story that is rarely told before, except in journalistic pieces, novels or short stories. Dr Olmedo, through his sharp scholarly lens and rich analytical and multi-tasking skills he acquired as a professional, has written
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