ISBN:
9781782381754
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (162 p.)
Series Statement:
Studies in Public and Applied Anthropology 1
DDC:
301
Keywords:
Anthropologists
;
Applied anthropology
;
Consultants
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General
Abstract:
More and more, anthropologists are recruited as consultants by government departments, companies or as observers of development processes in their field areas generally. Although these roles can be very gratifying, they can create ambiguous situations for the anthropologists who find that new pressures and responsibilities are placed upon them for which their training did not prepare them. This volume explores some of the problems, opportunities, issues, debates, and dilemmas surrounding these roles. The geographic focus of the studies is Papua New Guinea, but the topic and its importance apply widely through the world, for example, Africa, South America, Australia, and the Pacific in general, as well as in relation to indigenous groups in Canada and elsewhere. All the authors have first-hand experience and they address these new pressures and responsibilities of anthropological research. The book's chapters are written in a way that combines scholarship with a style accessible to general readers
Description / Table of Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Introduction: Anthropology and Consultancy—Ethnographic Dilemmas and Opportunities -- 1. On Knowing the Baining and Other Minor Ethnic Groups of East New Britain -- 2. From Anthropologist to Government Officer and Back Again -- 3. Environmental Non-governmental Organizations and the Nature of Ethnographic Inquiry -- 4. The Politics of Accountability: An Institutional Analysis of the Conservation Movement in Papua New Guinea -- 5. Where Anthropologists Fear to Tread: Notes and Queries on Anthropology and Consultancy, Inspired by a Fieldwork Experience -- 6. Taking Care of Culture: Consultancy, Anthropology, and Gender Issues -- Notes on Contributors -- Index
Note:
In English
DOI:
10.1515/9781782381754
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