This volume brings together a selection of classic and contemporary articles written by anthropologists over the last sixty years. The essays reflect the move from earlier preoccupations with 'culture' and 'relationality' and cast new light on the relevance of ethnography for organisational and social theory.

Series preface
Introduction
Human Relations
Methods for the study of human relations in industry
The perspectives of Elton Mayo
The social structure of the restaurant
Social and Political Relations
'Banana time': job satisfaction and informal interaction
The politics of ritual secrecy
Beyond account: the personal impact of police shootings
Productive and Power Relations
Anthropology of the multinational corporation
The production of possession: spirits and the multinational corporation in Malaysia
The culture of production: aesthetic choices and constraints in culinary work
Factory, family and neighbourhood: the political economy of informal labour in Sheffield
Bureaucratic and Administrative Relations
Managing the managers
Moral mazes: bureaucracy and managerial work
Penetrability of administrative systems: political 'casework' and immigration inspections
The anthropology of power-wielding bureaucracies
Organizational Culture
Concepts of culture and organizational analysis
A cultural theory of information bias in organizations
Anthropological Cultures
Methods
The fact of fiction in organizational ethnography
Persons and Places
Creating an ideal self: theories of selfhood and pedagogy at a Japanese ethics retreat
The significance of meetings in an American mental health centre
Theories
A classification of occupations and their associated fiddles
Terrorism: a positive feedback game
Anthropological Institutionalisations
Consuming, science: public knowledge and the dispersed politics of reception among museum visitors
Re-Institutionalisations of the Contemporary
Technological
Reconstructing technologies as social practice
Political
Is good policy unimplementable? Reflections on the ethnography of aid policy and practice
The tyranny of transparency
Work
Changing scripts at work: managers and professionals
Working out personhood: notes on 'labour' and its anthropology
Theoretical
On time, space, and action nets
Real time: unwinding technocratic and anthropological knowledge
Name index
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