ISBN:
9781845456788
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (252 p)
Series Statement:
Studies in Public and Applied Anthropology v.4
Series Statement:
Studies in Applied Anthropology Volume 4
Parallel Title:
Print version Visual Interventions : Applied Visual Anthropology
DDC:
301
Keywords:
Visual anthropology ; Methodology
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Applied anthropology ; Philosophy
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Applied anthropology ; Methodology
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Visual anthropology has proved to offer fruitful methods of research and representation to applied projects of social intervention. Through a series of case studies based on applied visual anthropological work in a range of contexts (health and medicine, tourism and heritage, social development, conflict and disaster relief, community filmmaking and empowerment, and industry) this volume examines both the range contexts in which applied visual anthropology is engaged, and the methodological and theoretical issues it raises
Description / Table of Contents:
Applications of Anthropology; CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; PART I. THE HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT OF APPLIED ANTHROPOLOGY IN THE U.K.; INTRODUCTION: Applications of Anthropology; Chapter 1. MACHETES INTO A JUNGLE? A History of Anthropology in Policy and Practice, 1981-2000; Chapter 2. DINNER AT CLARIDGES?Anthropology and the 'Captains of Industry', 1947-1955; PART II. ANTHROPOLOGY AND INDUSTRY; Chapter 3. THE PURE AND THE IMPURE?Reflections on Applying Anthropology and Doing Ethnography; Chapter 4. THE NEED TO ENGAGE WITH NON-ETHNOGRAPHIC RESEARCH METHODS: A Personal View
Description / Table of Contents:
PART III. ANTHROPOLOGY AND THE PUBLIC SECTORChapter 5. INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT, SOCIALANALYSIS, … AND ANTHROPOLOGY?Applying Anthropology in and to Development; Chapter 6. ANTHROPOLOGY AT THE CENTRE: Reflections on Research, Policy Guidance and Decision Support.; Chapter 7.SPEAKING OF SILENCE: Reflections on the Application of Anthropology to the U.K. Health Services; PART IV. ANTHROPOLOGISTS IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN: ANTHROPOLOGY MEDIA AND LAW; Chapter 8. ANTHROPOLOGISTS IN TELEVISION: A Disappearing World?
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 9. RESEARCH, REPRESENTATIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES: An Anthropologist in the Contested World of FoxhuntingChapter 10. 'CULTURE' IN COURT: Albanian Migrants and the Anthropologistas Expert Witness; NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX
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