Moral Work of Anthropology

Hanne Overgaard Mogensen is Associate Professor at the Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen. She is the author of Secrecy and Responsibility in the Era of an Epidemic: Letters from Uganda (Palgrave, 2020).

“The book give many new insights about what the authors name the ‘moral economy’ as well as many ‘aha’ moments for me as an anthropological reader and raises good questions about what is happening to the discipline in a changing world.” • Catherine Haase, Aarhus University“This was one of the most compelling and insightful volumes of work I’ve engaged with for a long time. The topic of the moral constitution of anthropological practice, and indeed anthropologists themselves, by way of ethnographic studies of anthropologists working outside traditional anthropological university labour settings, is timely, important and incisive, and the chapters rich and well formulated as a whole.” • Melissa Cefkin, Alliance Innovation Lab, Silicon Valley

• Introduction: An Ethnography and Anthropology of AnthropologistsHanne Overgaard Mogensen, Birgitte Gorm Hansen and Morten Axel PedersenChapter 1. Caring for Others: Moral Health Care in the Company of AnthropologyHanne Overgaard MogensenChapter 2. Doing Morally Acceptable Business: Anthropologists in the World of ConsultantsJazmin Mølgaard CullenChapter 3. Not That Kind of Manager: Moral Work in Anthropological LeadershipBirgitte Gorm HansenChapter 4. Going Native in Data Science: An (Auto) Ethnography of Interdisciplinary CollaborationMorten Axel PedersenChapter 5. You Win. Forever: Moral Positioning in a Field with No Going HomeLise Røjskjær Pedersen and Birgitte Gorm HansenChapter 6. Leaving the Church of Anthropology: From Discipline to Profession in Anthropological PraxisSteffen JöhnckeConclusionHanne Overgaard Mogensen og Birgitte Gorm HansenIndex