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Public Anthropology in a Borderless World / ed. by Carl A. Maida, Sam Beck.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in Public and Applied Anthropology ; 8Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (412 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781782387305
  • 9781782387312
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 301 23
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- Chapter 1 COMMUNITY-BASED RESEARCH ORGANIZATIONS Co-constructing Public Knowledge and Bridging Knowledge/Action Communities Through Participatory Action Research -- Chapter 2 CROSSING THE LINE Participatory Action Research in a Museum Setting -- Chapter 3 MONITORING THE COMMONS Giving “Voice” to Environmental Justice in Pacoima -- Chapter 4 POLITICAL-ETHICAL DILEMMAS PARTICIPANT OBSERVED -- Chapter 5 PUBLIC ANTHROPOLOGY AND STRUCTURAL ENGAGEMENT Making Ameliorating Social Inequality Our Primary Agenda -- Chapter 6 PUBLIC ANTHROPOLOGY AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL RESEARCH -- Chapter 7 PUBLIC ANTHROPOLOGY AND ITS RECEPTION -- Chapter 8 ANTHROPOLOGY FOR WHOM? Challenges and Prospects of Activist Scholarship -- Chapter 9 “WE ARE PLUMBERS OF DEMOCRACY” A Study of Aspirations to Inclusive Public Dialogues in Mexico and Its Repercussions -- Chapter 10 WHAT EVERYBODY SHOULD KNOW ABOUT NATURE-CULTURE Anthropology in the Public Sphere and “The Two Cultures” -- Chapter 11 REIMAGINING THE FRAGMENTED CITY/CITIZEN Young People and Public Action in Rio de Janeiro -- Chapter 12 URBAN TRANSITIONS Graffiti Transformations -- Chapter 13 RECREATING COMMUNITY New Housing for Amui Djor Residents -- INDEX
Summary: 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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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- Chapter 1 COMMUNITY-BASED RESEARCH ORGANIZATIONS Co-constructing Public Knowledge and Bridging Knowledge/Action Communities Through Participatory Action Research -- Chapter 2 CROSSING THE LINE Participatory Action Research in a Museum Setting -- Chapter 3 MONITORING THE COMMONS Giving “Voice” to Environmental Justice in Pacoima -- Chapter 4 POLITICAL-ETHICAL DILEMMAS PARTICIPANT OBSERVED -- Chapter 5 PUBLIC ANTHROPOLOGY AND STRUCTURAL ENGAGEMENT Making Ameliorating Social Inequality Our Primary Agenda -- Chapter 6 PUBLIC ANTHROPOLOGY AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL RESEARCH -- Chapter 7 PUBLIC ANTHROPOLOGY AND ITS RECEPTION -- Chapter 8 ANTHROPOLOGY FOR WHOM? Challenges and Prospects of Activist Scholarship -- Chapter 9 “WE ARE PLUMBERS OF DEMOCRACY” A Study of Aspirations to Inclusive Public Dialogues in Mexico and Its Repercussions -- Chapter 10 WHAT EVERYBODY SHOULD KNOW ABOUT NATURE-CULTURE Anthropology in the Public Sphere and “The Two Cultures” -- Chapter 11 REIMAGINING THE FRAGMENTED CITY/CITIZEN Young People and Public Action in Rio de Janeiro -- Chapter 12 URBAN TRANSITIONS Graffiti Transformations -- Chapter 13 RECREATING COMMUNITY New Housing for Amui Djor Residents -- INDEX

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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