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072 7 _aSOC002010
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
245 0 2 _aA World of Work :
_bImagined Manuals for Real Jobs /
_ced. by Ilana M. Gershon.
264 1 _aIthaca, NY :
_bCornell University Press,
_c[2015]
264 4 _c©2015
300 _a1 online resource (248 p.) :
_b12 halftones
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tIntroduction --
_t1. Letter to A Young Malawian Doctor --
_t2. What You Need to Know to Be a Fish Farmer in West Norway --
_t3. How to Be a Magician in Paris --
_t4. Being a Village Court Magistrate in Papua New Guinea --
_t5. The Chaplain. Being a Physician of the Soul in a Secular Age --
_t6. Being a Crime Scene Technician in Sweden --
_t7. Playing Piano Without a Piano in Bolivia --
_t8. Making Do in Perpetual Crisis: How to Be a Journalist in Buryatia --
_t9. How to be a Professional Organizer in the United States --
_t10. The Character in Question. How To Design Film Costumes In India --
_t11. Reflections from a Life on the Line. How To Be A Factory Worker --
_t12. How to Be a Cell Phone Repair Technician --
_t13. Becoming a Professional Wrestler in Mexico City --
_t14. The Pains and Peaks of Being a Ballerina in London --
_tAfterword --
_tContributors
506 0 _arestricted access
_uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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520 _aEver wondered what it would be like to be a street magician in Paris? A fish farmer in Norway? A costume designer in Bollywood? This playful and accessible look at different types of work around the world delivers a wealth of information and advice about a wide array of jobs and professions. The value of this book is twofold: For young people or middle-aged people who are undecided about their career paths and feel constrained in their choices, A World of Work offers an expansive vision. For ethnographers, this book offers an excellent example of using the practical details of everyday life to shed light on larger structural issues.Each chapter in this collection of ethnographic fiction could be considered a job manual. Yet not any typical job manual—to do justice to the ways details about jobs are conveyed in culturally specific ways, the authors adopt a range of voices and perspectives. One chapter is written as though it was a letter from an older sister counseling her brother on how to be a doctor in Malawi. Another is framed as a eulogy for a well-loved village magistrate in Papua New Guinea who may have been killed by sorcery.Beneath the novelty of the examples are some serious messages that Ilana Gershon highlights in her introduction. These ethnographies reveal the connection between work and culture, the impact of societal values on the conditions of employment. Readers will be surprised at how much they can learn about an entire culture by being given the chance to understand just one occupation.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2024)
650 0 _aOccupations
_vCross-cultural studies.
650 0 _aVocational guidance
_vCross-cultural studies.
650 0 _aWork
_vCross-cultural studies.
650 4 _aAnthropology.
650 4 _aLabor History.
650 7 _aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
_2bisacsh
653 _aoccupational diversity, job information, career paths, everyday life, structural issues within occupations, employment, work and culture, societal values of employment.
700 1 _aBains, Lovleen
_eautore
700 1 _aBandawe, Chiwoza
_eautore
700 1 _aBell, Joshua A
_eautore
700 1 _aBigenho, Michelle
_eautore
700 1 _aChamberlain, Warren
_eautore
700 1 _aDemian, Melissa
_eautore
700 1 _aGershon, Ilana
_eautore
700 1 _aGershon, Ilana M.
_ecuratore
700 1 _aGraber, Kathryn E.
_eautore
700 1 _aJones, Graham M.
_eautore
700 1 _aKemble, Amanda
_eautore
700 1 _aKobak, Briel
_eautore
700 1 _aKruse, Corinna
_eautore
700 1 _aKuipers, Joel
_eautore
700 1 _aLane, Carrie M.
_eautore
700 1 _aLave, Jean
_eautore
700 1 _aLaw, John
_eautore
700 1 _aLevi, Heather
_eautore
700 1 _aLien, Marianne Elisabeth
_eautore
700 1 _aLynch, Caitrin
_eautore
700 1 _aMarquet, Loïc
_eautore
700 1 _aSullivan, Winnifred Fallers
_eautore
700 1 _aSwift, Christopher
_eautore
700 1 _aWendland, Claire
_eautore
700 1 _aWilkinson, Clare
_eautore
700 1 _aWulff, Helena
_eautore
850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.7591/9780801456428
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780801456428
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