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Toward Engaged Anthropology / ed. by Carl A. Maida, Sam Beck.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2013]Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resource (178 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780857459107
  • 9781782380375
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.01 23/eng
LOC classification:
  • GN33
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Toward Engaged Anthropology -- Expert and Lay Knowledge in Pacoima: Public Anthropology and an Essential Tension in Community-based Participatory Action Research -- Norwegian Anthropologists Study Minorities at Home: Political and Academic Agendas -- Dow Chemical’s Knowledge Factories: Action Anthropology against Michigan’s Company Town Culture -- Producing Knowledge for Public Use: New Challenges in the U.S. Academy -- Notes on a Dialogical Anthropology -- Mapping Solidarity: How Public Anthropology Provides Guidelines for Advocacy Networks -- Lessons from Vicos -- Notes on Contributors -- Index
Summary: By working with underserved communities, anthropologists may play a larger role in democratizing society. The growth of disparities challenges anthropology to be used for social justice. This engaged stance moves the application of anthropological theory, methods, and practice toward action and activism. However, this engagement also moves anthropologists away from traditional roles of observation toward participatory roles that become increasingly involved with those communities or social groupings being studied. The chapters in this book suggest the roles anthropologists are able to play to bring us closer to a public anthropology characterized as engagement.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Toward Engaged Anthropology -- Expert and Lay Knowledge in Pacoima: Public Anthropology and an Essential Tension in Community-based Participatory Action Research -- Norwegian Anthropologists Study Minorities at Home: Political and Academic Agendas -- Dow Chemical’s Knowledge Factories: Action Anthropology against Michigan’s Company Town Culture -- Producing Knowledge for Public Use: New Challenges in the U.S. Academy -- Notes on a Dialogical Anthropology -- Mapping Solidarity: How Public Anthropology Provides Guidelines for Advocacy Networks -- Lessons from Vicos -- Notes on Contributors -- Index

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By working with underserved communities, anthropologists may play a larger role in democratizing society. The growth of disparities challenges anthropology to be used for social justice. This engaged stance moves the application of anthropological theory, methods, and practice toward action and activism. However, this engagement also moves anthropologists away from traditional roles of observation toward participatory roles that become increasingly involved with those communities or social groupings being studied. The chapters in this book suggest the roles anthropologists are able to play to bring us closer to a public anthropology characterized as engagement.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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