ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on contributions that reflect on the various methodological traditions that have informed organizational anthropology. The term methodology is much broader than mere method. A method is a tool or a technique that is used in the process of inquiry. Interest in anthropology has been an on-going feature of organizational research and pedagogy. We believe that the academic community in business schools will welcome a volume that links organizational studies to classical and current contemporary anthropological concerns, and makes explicit how these linkages can inform and enrich organizational research. Raza chose ethnography as the methodology of choice in his doctoral dissertation. He experienced loneliness in his initial journey, and had to rely on colleagues in anthropology and other social sciences to discuss his ideas. The field of anthropology is after all a social science in its own right, incorporating a spectrum of sub-fields, from the physiobiological to the linguistic, the cultural to the archeological, and beyond.
