The applied anthropology reader / edited by James H. McDonald.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

McDonald, James H.

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Applied anthropology.

Physical Description:

viii, 424 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Boston, MA : Allyn and Bacon, [2002]

Summary:

This new reader offers a collection of articles focusing on practicing anthropology at a time when readers are increasingly looking for ways to apply their anthropology degrees to their professional lives. This book gives a broad overview of the applied cultural anthropology field through contextualizing case studies that cover important issues (roles, ethics, methods, policy) as well as domains of practice (urban, medical, development, the environment, education, and business). The first half of the reader highlights key issues: The role of applied anthropology in society, ethical dilemmas, special research methods, and public policy implications for applied anthropology. The second half of the reader covers different applied career domains or specialization within applied anthropology including urban, medical, developmental, educational, and corporate career options.

Contents:

Section 1 Issues

2 Roles 8

Reading 1 "An Appropriate Role for Postcolonial Applied Anthropologists" / Laura Thompson (1976) 10

Reading 2 "Thinking Public Interest Anthropology 1890s-1990s" / Laura Nader (1999) 18

3 Ethics 24

Reading 3 "Confronting Anthropological Ethics: Ethnographic Lessons from Central America" / Philippe Bourgois (1990) 26

Reading 4 "Informed Consent in Anthropological Research: We Are Not Exempt" / Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban (1994) 39

Reading 5 "Proprietary Research and Anthropological Ethics" / William O. Beeman (1992) 56

4 Methods 61

Reading 6 "The Pursuit of Social Knowledge: Methodology and the Practice of Anthropology" / Timothy J. Finan, John van Willigen (1991) 62

Reading 7 "Basic Concepts and Techniques of Rapid Appraisal" / James Beebe (1995) 70

Reading 8 "Toward the Use of Ethnography in Health Care Program Evaluation" / Merrill Singer (1999) 88

5 Policy 105

Reading 9 "Changing Roles of Agriculture in Global Development Policy: Is Anthropology (Out)Standing in Its Field?" / Timothy J. Finan (1997) 106

Reading 10 "Law, Custom, and Crime against Women: The Problem of Dowry Death in India" / John van Willigen, V. C. Channa (1991) 116

Reading 11 "Implications of the Cultural Conservation Report for Social Impact Assessment" / Benita J. Howell (1983) 130

Section 2 Domains

6 Urban Anthropology 139

Reading 12 "Urbanization without Breakdown: A Case Study" / Oscar Lewis (1952) 140

Reading 13 "Workaday World, Crack Economy" / Philippe Bourgois (1995) 149

Reading 14 "Street Baptism: Chicano Gang Initiation" / James Diego Vigil (1996) 156

Reading 15 "Applying Anthropology to American Indian Correctional Concerns" / Elizabeth S. Grobsmith (1992) 165

7 Medical Anthropology 172

Reading 16 "Relationships between Theoretical and Applied Anthropology: A Public Health Program Analysis" / George M. Foster (1952) 173

Reading 17 "Needle Access as an AIDS Prevention Strategy for IV Drug Users: A Research Perspective" / Merrill Singer, Ray Irizarry, Jean J. Schensul (1991) 194

Reading 18 "The Significance of Settlement Pattern for Community Participation in Health: Lessons from Africa" / Edward C. Green, Raymond B. Isely (1988) 215

Reading 19 "Primary Health Care and Local Self-Determination: Policy Implications from Rural Papua New Guinea" / Robert L. Welsch (1986) 230

8 Development Anthropology 248

Reading 20 "The Fox Project" / Sol Tax (1958) 250

Reading 21 "The Great Sisal Scheme" / Daniel R. Gross (1971) 255

Reading 22 "The Illusion of Local Sustainability and Self-Sufficiency: Famine in a Border Area of Northwestern Zambia" / Art Hansen (1994) 260

Reading 23 "Credit Programs, Women's Empowerment, and Contraceptive Use in Rural Bangladesh" / Sidney Ruth Schuler, Syed M. Hashemi (1994) 278

9 Environmental Anthropology 298

Reading 24 "Inside the Decision-Making Process: Ethnography and Environmental Risk Management" / Edward Liebow (1995) 299

Reading 25 "Animal Agriculture for the Regeneration of Degraded Tropical Forests" / Ronald Nigh (1995) 310

Reading 26 "Endangered Species and Precarious Lives in the Upper Gulf of California" / Thomas R. McGuire, Gloria Ciria Valdez-Gardea (1997) 318

10 Anthropology and Education 329

Reading 27 "Docility, or Giving Teacher What She Wants" / Jules Henry (1955) 330

Reading 28 "The Rough Rock Demonstration School: A Case History with Implications for Educational Evaluation" / T. L. McCarty (1987) 338

Reading 29 "Indigenous Education and Grassroots Language Planning in the USA" / Teresa L. McCarty, Lucille J. Watahomigie (1999) 353

Reading 30 "Streets and Schools: How Educators Can Help Chicano Marginalized Gang Youth" / James Diego Vigil (1999) 363

11 Business and Industrial Anthropology 379

Reading 31 "Organization Problems in Industry" / Eliot D. Chapple (1941) 380

Reading 32 "Managing Diversity: Translating Anthropological Insights for Organization Studies" / Ann T. Jordan (1995) 389

Reading 33 "Business Anthropology in a Work Subculture: Korean and Japanese Young, Single, Working Women" / Nancy Rosenberger (1999) 403

Reading 34 "Anthropology and Social Marketing: A Powerful Combination" / Christopher A. Brown (1997) 414

Reading 35 "Shopping Spies" / Carrie McLaren (1998) 419.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

0205324916

OCLC:

47297735