ISBN:
9781782387312
Language:
Undetermined
Pages:
412 p.
Edition:
1st edition
Series Statement:
Studies in Public and Applied Anthropology 8
Keywords:
Applied Anthropology
Abstract:
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.
Description / Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- Carl A. Maida and Sam Beck -- Chapter 1. Community-Based Research Organizations: Co-constructing Public Knowledge and Bridging Knowledge/Action Communities through Participatory Action Research -- Jean J. Schensul -- Chapter 2. Crossing the Line: Participatory Action Research in a Museum Setting -- Alaka Wali and Madeleine Tudor -- Chapter 3. Monitoring the Commons: Giving "Voice" to Environmental Justice in Pacoima -- Carl A. Maida -- Chapter 4. Political-Ethical Dilemmas Participant Observed -- Josiah McC. Heyman -- Chapter 5. Public Anthropology and Structural Engagement: Making Ameliorating Social Inequality Our Primary Agenda -- Merrill Singer -- Chapter 6. Public Anthropology and the Transformation of Anthropological Research -- Louise Lamphere -- Chapter 7. Public Anthropology and Its Reception -- Judith Goode -- Chapter 8. Anthropology for Whom? Challenges and Prospects of Activist Scholarship -- Angela Stuesse -- Chapter 9. "We Are Plumbers of Democracy": A Study of Aspirations to Inclusive Public Dialogues in Mexico and Its Repercussions -- Raúl Acosta -- Chapter 10. What Everybody Should Know about Nature-Culture: Anthropology in the Public Sphere and "The Two Cultures" -- Thomas Hylland Eriksen -- Chapter 11. Reimagining the Fragmented City/Citizen: Young People and Public Action in Rio de Janeiro -- Udi Mandel Butler -- Chapter 12. Urban Transitions: Graffiti Transformations -- Sam Beck -- Chapter 13. Recreating Community: New Housing for Amui Djor Residents -- Tony Asare, Erika Mamley Osae, and Deborah Pellow -- Notes on Contributors --
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http://fid.berghahnbooksonline.com/title/BeckPublic
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