Public anthropology in a borderless world / edited by Sam Beck and Carl A. Maida.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Beck, Sam, editor.

Maida, Carl A., editor.

Series:

Studies in public and applied anthropology ; Volume 8.

Studies in Public and Applied Anthropology ; Volume 8

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public anthropology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (412 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford, [England] : Berghahn Books, 2015.

Language Note:

English

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 im

Contents:

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 ResearchChapter 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 TransformationsChapter 13 - Recreating Community: New Housing for Amui Djor Residents; Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781782387312

1782387315

OCLC:

914166141