Engaged observer : anthropology, advocacy, and activism / edited by Victoria Sanford and Asale Angel-Ajani ; foreword by Philippe Bourgois.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sanford, Victoria.

Angel-Ajani, Asale.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anthropology--Philosophy.

Anthropology.

Political anthropology.

Anthropological ethics.

Social conflict.

Violence.

Social advocacy.

Social justice.

Physical Description:

xii, 254 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2006]

Contents:

Excavations of the heart : reflections on truth, memory, and structures of understanding / Victoria Sanford

Scholarship, advocacy, and the politics of engagement in Burma (Myanmar) / Monique Skidmore

War and the nature of ultimate things : an essay on the study of postwar cultures / Roberta Culbertson

Expert witness : notes toward revisiting the politics of listening / Asale Angel-Ajani

Moral chronologies : generation and popular memory in a Palestinian refugee camp / John Collins

"In our beds and our graves" : revealing the politics of pleasure and pain in the time of AIDS / Michael J. Bosia

Portrait of a paramilitary ; putting a human face on the Colombian conflict / Aldo Civico

Fratricidal war or ethnocidal strategy? : women's experience with political violence in Chiapas / R. Aída Hernández Castillo

Indigenous women and gendered resistance in the wake of acteal : a feminist activist research perspective / Shannon Speed

It's a hard place to be a revolutionary woman : finding peace and justice in postwar El Salvador / Irina Carlota Silber

Perils and promises of engaged anthropology : historical transitions and ethnographic dilemmas / Kay B. Warren

Knowledge in the service of a vision : politically engaged anthropology / Dana-Ain Davis.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0813538912

0813538920

9780813538914

9780813538921

OCLC:

64289071

Publisher Number:

9780813538914

9780813538921