Book reviews Book reviews Organizational Ethnography: Studying the Complexities of Everyday Life,

Although the discipline of anthropology and its associated ethnographic method is now long established, organizational ethnography is a relatively new field of methodological inquiry. As such, there are comparatively few texts dealing explicitly with the subject matter. This book is therefore especially welcome. Organizational Ethnography: Studying the Complexities of Everyday Life is an edited collection which brings together fairly sophisticated methodological deliberation. The volume follows a conventional structure. The contributions themselves are divided into one of three sections: ‘Ethnographic Doing and Writing’; ‘Familiarity and ‘Stranger-ness’’; and ‘Researcher–Researched Relationships’. The text also includes a reason-ably comprehensive glossary of organizational ethnographic studies which goes beyond a con-ventional reference list and includes many studies not actually cited in the book. This glossary is a valuable resource in itself. Students and scholars new to the field of organizational ethnography would do well to begin elsewhere. Neyland’s (2008) Organizational Ethnography provides a better introduction to the method for the uninitiated. This edited volume is definitely not a ‘how to ’ text. However, this should not deter others from this collection. The book claims that it is intended for ‘advance