Public Anthropology in a Borderless World

Published by Berghahn Books 2015

Public Anthropology in a Borderless World

Edited by: Sam Beck and Carl A. Maida

Volume 8 in the series Studies in Public and Applied Anthropology

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781782387312

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About this book

Anthropologists have acted as experts and educators on the nature and ways of life of people worldwide, working to understand the human condition in broad comparative perspective. As a discipline, anthropology has often advocated — and even defended — the cultural integrity, authenticity, and autonomy of societies across the globe. Public anthropology today carries out the discipline’s original purpose, grounding theories in lived experience and placing empirical knowledge in deeper historical and comparative frameworks. This is a vitally important kind of anthropology that has the goal of improving the modern human condition by actively engaging with people to make changes through research, education, and political action.

Author / Editor information

Sam Beck is Senior Lecturer in the College of Human Ecology and Director of the Urban Semester Program at Cornell University. His publications include Manny Almeida’s Ringside Lounge: The Cape Verdean Struggle for Their Neighborhood (1992) and Toward Engaged Anthropology (2013, ed. with Carl A. Maida).

Carl A. Maida is Professor in the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability and Director of the Pre-College Science Education Program at the University of California, Los Angeles. His publications include Sustainability and Communities of Place (2007) and Pathways through Crisis: Urban Risk and Public Culture (2008).

Sam Beck is Senior Lecturer in the College of Human Ecology and Director of the Urban Semester Program at Cornell University. His publications include Manny Almeida’s Ringside Lounge: The Cape Verdean Struggle for Their Neighborhood (1992) and Toward Engaged Anthropology (2013, ed. with Carl A. Maida).

Reviews

“[This] collection fruitfully examines how the turn to public engagement is transforming the discipline, leading anthropologists to reconsider the researcher's subject position and to use new techniques for conducting, communicating, and applying research to communities and publics. Contributors offer candid perspectives on their personal and professional transformations as they turn to a more engaged scholarly practice.” · Krista Harper, University of Massachusetts Amherst

“A truly fascinating read. It should provide countless inspiration for anthropologists of today and tomorrow. The case for public anthropology has now been well made.” · Angie Hart, University of Brighton

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
ILLUSTRATIONS Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	XII
INTRODUCTION Carl A. Maida and Sam Beck Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter 1 COMMUNITY-BASED RESEARCH ORGANIZATIONS Co-constructing Public Knowledge and Bridging Knowledge/Action Communities Through Participatory Action Research Jean J. Schensul Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	36
Chapter 2 CROSSING THE LINE Participatory Action Research in a Museum Setting Alaka Wali and Madeleine Tudor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	66
Chapter 3 MONITORING THE COMMONS Giving “Voice” to Environmental Justice in Pacoima Carl A. Maida Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	89
Chapter 4 POLITICAL-ETHICAL DILEMMAS PARTICIPANT OBSERVED Josiah McC. Heyman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	118
Chapter 5 PUBLIC ANTHROPOLOGY AND STRUCTURAL ENGAGEMENT Making Ameliorating Social Inequality Our Primary Agenda Merrill Singer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	144
Chapter 6 PUBLIC ANTHROPOLOGY AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL RESEARCH Louise Lamphere Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	162
Chapter 7 PUBLIC ANTHROPOLOGY AND ITS RECEPTION Judith Goode Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	192
Chapter 8 ANTHROPOLOGY FOR WHOM? Challenges and Prospects of Activist Scholarship Angela Stuesse Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	221
Chapter 9 “WE ARE PLUMBERS OF DEMOCRACY” A Study of Aspirations to Inclusive Public Dialogues in Mexico and Its Repercussions Raúl Acosta Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	247
Chapter 10 WHAT EVERYBODY SHOULD KNOW ABOUT NATURE-CULTURE Anthropology in the Public Sphere and “The Two Cultures” Thomas Hylland Eriksen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	264
Chapter 11 REIMAGINING THE FRAGMENTED CITY/CITIZEN Young People and Public Action in Rio de Janeiro Udi Mandel Butler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	286
Chapter 12 URBAN TRANSITIONS Graffiti Transformations Sam Beck Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	314
Chapter 13 RECREATING COMMUNITY New Housing for Amui Djor Residents Tony Asare, Erika Mamley Osae and Deborah Pellow Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	351
INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	376

Language: English
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 412
Keywords: Applied Anthropology

eBook

Published: July 1, 2015
ISBN: 9781782387312