If anthropologists weren't so anti-business, there would be multi-billion $ business ethnography industry. Big Narrative > Big Data in value
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not at all. Business books rarely have more than short stylized vignettes. Historical biographies are closer.
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nope, you're not. Write something comparable to Geertz' Deep Play and you're in the running.
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well...put it online, see what reactions you get. 1000s of liberal art grads you make fun of write these. Not all Geertz-level.
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anthros outnumbered by "ethnography"-practicing sociologists (and related - org. studies , cultural studies etc.) anyway
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(quote marks because anthro's wouldn't consider much of that "real" ethnography - too little immersion/too short length of study etc
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no, I'm being serious. There's no proper tradition of thick description. Segmentation etc. are all thin methods.
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