Ethnographies of conferences and trade fairs : shaping industries, creating professionals /: shaping industries, creating professionals. ([2017])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Hege Høyer Leivestad, Anette Nyqvist, editors.
• Editors: Leivestad, Hege Høyer; Nyqvist, Anette
• Contents: 1. Individuals and Industries: Large-Scale Professional Gatherings as Ethnographic Fields -- 2. Scheduled Schmoozing: Notes on Interludal Practices at Responsible Investors' Conferences -- 3. White Corporate Feminine Spirituality: The Rise of Global Professional Women's Conferences in the New Millennium -- 4. The Therapeutic Square: The Psychotherapy Fair from an Anthropological Perspective -- 5. Establishing the Complexity of Obesity: The Conference as a Site of Understanding Obesity as a Medical Condition -- 6. The Biennial of Dakar: Scales of Art Worlds-Networks -- 7. Beyond Informality: Intimacy and Commerce at the Caravanning Trade Fair -- 8. Traversing Trade Fairs and Fashion Weeks: On Dependence and Disavowal in the Indian Fashion Industry.
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (x, 174 pages)
• Subjects: 301.2; Social sciences; Anthropology -- Congresses; Trade shows; Congresses and conventions; Ethnology; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Regional Studies; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General; Anthropology; Congresses and conventions; Ethnology; Trade shows; Social Science -- Sociology -- General; Business & Economics -- General; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography; Sociology: work & labour; Distributive industries; Ethnography; Trade; Electronic books; Conference papers and proceedings
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319530970; 3319530976
• Related ISBNs: 9783319530963; 3319530968
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Vendor-supplied metadata.
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