Anthropology put to work / edited by Les W. Field and Richard G. Fox.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Field, Les W.

Fox, Richard G. (Richard Gabriel), 1939-

Series:

Wenner-Gren international series.

Wenner-Gren international symposium series.

Wenner-Gren international symposium series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Applied anthropology.

Anthropology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (270 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

How do anthropologists work today and how will they work in future? While some anthropologists have recently called for a new "public" or "engaged" anthropology, profound changes have already occurred, leading to new kinds of work for a large number of anthropologists. The image of anthropologists "reaching out" from protected academic positions to a vaguely defined "public" is out of touch with the working conditions of these anthropologists, especially those junior and untenured. The papers in this volume show that anthropology is put to work in diverse ways today. They indicate that the new conditions of anthropological work require significant departures from canonical principles of cultural anthropology, such as replacing ethnographic rapport with multiple forms of collaboration. This volume's goal is to help graduate students and early-career scholars accept these changes without feeling something essential to anthropology has been lost. There really is no other choice for most young anthropologists.

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Participants in the Wenner-Gren Symposium; Introduction; 1 Anthropological Collaborationsin Colombia; 2 Gray Spaces and Endless Negotiations; 3 Collaborating to Meet the Goals of a Native Sovereign Nation; 4 Doing Cultural Anthropology and Disability Studies in Rehabilitation Training and Research Contexts; 5 In Praise of "Reckless Minds"; 6 What Do Indicators Indicate?; 7 Working Anthropology; 8 Potential Collaborations and Disjunctures in Australian Work Sites; 9 The Dilemmas of "Working" Anthropology in Twenty-first-Century India; 10 Ethnographic Alchemy

11 Reflections on the SymposiumReferences; Index

Notes:

"First published in 2007 by Berg Publishers."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-00-308464-8

1-000-18378-5

1-000-18054-9

1-003-08464-8

1-4742-1416-9

1-282-47364-6

9786612473647

1-84788-333-8

9781003084648

OCLC:

237181147