The Moral Work of Anthropology

Associate Professor Hanne Overgaard Mogensen has co-edited the anthology ‘The Moral Work of Anthropology – Ethnographic Studies of Anthropologists at Work’.

The book investigates what kind of morality anthropologists at work perform in their occupations and what the impact of this morality is by including ethnographic studies in four professional arenas: health care, business, management and interdisciplinary research.

The discussion is positioned at the intersection of ‘applied or public anthropology’ and ‘the anthropology of ethics’ and analyses the ways in which anthropologists can carry out ‘moral work’ both inside and outside of academia.

The book is edited in collaboration with Birgitte Gorm Hansen and includes contributions from the editors as well as Jazmin Mølgaard Cullen, Lise Røjskjær Pedersen, Steffen Jöhncke and Morten Axel Pedersen. Morten Axel Pedersen, professor at SODAS and the Department of Anthropology, has also co-written the introduction.

Read more on the publisher’s website: The Moral Work of Anthropology