![]() ![]() First, the review carves out deeper assumptions and epistemological premises behind different ways of “seeing” events. What is it that marks events as distinct from the everyday? What do scholars hope to learn when studying trade fairs, religious rituals or management meetings? How do these occasions relate to broader social and organizational contexts? Such comparative view on the question “what is an event” reveals that scholars across these disciplines divergently frame events as (1) as windows into society, (2) as agentic tools, (3) as global forms, (4) as spaces of practice, and/or (5) as processes. This review chapter engages with ethnographic conceptions of “the event” (as a public performance) held in the two disciplines of Anthropology and Organization Studies. ![]()
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