Ever 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.Contributors: Lovleen Bains, Mumbai; Chiwoza Bandawe,
University of Malawi; Joshua A. Bell, Smithsonian Institution;
Michelle Bigenho, Colgate University; Warren Chamberlain, Vita
Needle Company, Massachusetts; Melissa Demian, Australian National
University; Ilana Gershon, Indiana University; Kathryn Graber,
Indiana University; Graham M. Jones, MIT; Amanda Kemble, University
of Michigan; Briel Kobak, University of Chicago; Corinna Kruse,
Linkoeping University, Sweden; Joel Kuipers, The George Washington
University; Carrie Lane, California State University, Fullerton;
Jean Lave, University of California, Berkeley; John Law, Open
University; Heather Levi, Temple University; Marianne Elisabeth
Lien, University of Oslo; Caitrin Lynch, Olin College; Loic
Marquet, Paris; Winnifred Fallers Sullivan, Indiana University;
Chris Swift, Leeds Teaching Hospitals; Claire Wendland, University
of Wisconsin-Madison; Clare Wilkinson-Weber, Washington State
University Vancouver; Helena Wulff, Stockholm University
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