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Public Anthropology in a Borderless World

Beck Sam Maida Carl A.
Innbundet / 2015 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9781782387305
Publisert
2015-07-01
Utgiver
Vendor
Berghahn Books
Vekt
789 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
UP, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
412

Redaktør
Beck Sam
Maida Carl A.

Om bidragsyterne

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).

Public Anthropology in a Borderless World

Beck Sam Maida Carl A.
Innbundet / 2015 / Engelsk
Beck Sam Maida Carl A.
Innbundet / 2015 / Engelsk
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<em>“[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.”</em><strong>  ·  Krista Harper</strong>, University of Massachusetts Amherst</p>
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<em>“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.”</em><strong>  ·  Angie Hart</strong>, University of Brighton</p>

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.
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Today anthropologists carry out the discipline's original purpose of understanding and advocating for cultural integrity of societies across the globe. Public anthropology, likewise, is an important genre of anthropology with the goal of actively engaging with people to make changes to improve the modern human condition.
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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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<p>
<em>“[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.”</em><strong>  ·  Krista Harper</strong>, University of Massachusetts Amherst</p>
<p>
<em>“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.”</em><strong>  ·  Angie Hart</strong>, University of Brighton</p>

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.
Les mer
Today anthropologists carry out the discipline's original purpose of understanding and advocating for cultural integrity of societies across the globe. Public anthropology, likewise, is an important genre of anthropology with the goal of actively engaging with people to make changes to improve the modern human condition.
Les mer
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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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781782387305
Publisert
2015-07-01
Utgiver
Vendor
Berghahn Books
Vekt
789 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
UP, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
412

Redaktør
Beck Sam
Maida Carl A.

Om bidragsyterne

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).

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