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 on the way to comprehend the basis factors and which means of ethnicity at paintings in the hospitality zone. extra particularly, it observes social swap in a multi-ethnic and non-secular society via an ethnographic examine situated in a micro agency: the Grand inn. on the person point, this learn exhibits how id shifts and transformation should be mediated during the intake and manipulation of meals on the place of work. moreover, it combines an bold theoretical dialogue at the inspiration of ethnicity including empirical information that highlights how ethnicity is lived on a daily foundation at a office manifesting the dynamics of cultural, non secular and ethnic range. The e-book provides the quantitative and qualitative findings of 2 complementary surveys and pursues an interdisciplinary strategy, because it integrates methodologies from the sociology of organizations with vintage fieldwork tools borrowed from ethnology, whereas combining French and Anglo-Saxon faculties of concepts on questions of id and ethnicity. the result of the cultural touch happening in a westernised pocket of the worldwide labour marketplace – during which social practices derive from the headquarters situated in a society the place ethnicity is self-ascribed – with Malaysian social actors to whom ethnicity is assigned may be of specific curiosity for social scientists and common readers alike.
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I signed up as a substitute in a vocational hotel school located in the Eastern Parisian suburbs. This event marked the beginning of my second career into vocational teaching. Ten years later, I was managing the hospitality division of a polytechnic school in the district of Seine-et-Marne, about fifty miles East from Paris. The call for new horizons was becoming more pressing. It had been 2 years that I was part of recurrent “pedagogical engineering” missions, on behalf of the French ministry of foreign affairs, in Santiago de Chile.
It was market day. We had departed at dawn and would ride until the market square on mule’s back. The whole morning, 4 In French, the “Les Trente Glorieuses” expression refers to the post-war boom, a period of French history dated between 1945 and 1975. 14 2 Self-Ethnography, or How My Story Affects the Story I had been helping my cousin to move crates of vegetables and fruits (essentially quinces, tomatoes, chick peas and altramuces5 soaked in brine). I did not speak Spanish then, so we were using sign language to communicate.
The ideological posture of the West is pervasive enough to orientate fundamental tensions inherent to the modernity programme, notably the tensions “between pluralistic and totalistic movements, between utopian attitudes and open-cum-pragmatic attitudes, between plural and closed identities” (Eisenstadt 2005: 31). Ethnicity, as defined by former colonial powers, would constitute a product of modernity but not a breaking point between a premodern and a modern era. I posit that postcolonial societies have been incorporating a tension that arises from within modernity itself.