Applications Of Anthropology : Professional Anthropology in the Twenty-first Century

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pink, Sarah.

Series:

Studies in Public and Applied Anthropology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anthropology.

Applied anthropology--Methodology.

Applied anthropology--Philosophy.

Local Subjects:

Anthropology.

Applied anthropology--Methodology.

Applied anthropology--Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (252 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Berghahn Books, 2005.

Summary:

At the beginning of the twenty-first century the demand for anthropological approaches, understandings and methodologies outside academic departments is shifting and changing. Through a series of fascinating case studies of anthropologists' experiences of working with very diverse organizations in the private and public sector this volume examines existing and historical debates about applied anthropology. It explores the relationship between the ""pure and the impure"" - academic and applied anthropology, the question of anthropological identities in new working environments, new methodolo

Contents:

Applications of Anthropology; CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; PART I. THE HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT OF APPLIED ANTHROPOLOGY IN THE U.K.; INTRODUCTION: Applications of Anthropology; Chapter 1. MACHETES INTO A JUNGLE? A History of Anthropology in Policy and Practice, 1981-2000; Chapter 2. DINNER AT CLARIDGES?Anthropology and the 'Captains of Industry', 1947-1955; PART II. ANTHROPOLOGY AND INDUSTRY; Chapter 3. THE PURE AND THE IMPURE?Reflections on Applying Anthropology and Doing Ethnography; Chapter 4. THE NEED TO ENGAGE WITH NON-ETHNOGRAPHIC RESEARCH METHODS: A Personal View

PART III. ANTHROPOLOGY AND THE PUBLIC SECTORChapter 5. INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT, SOCIALANALYSIS, ... AND ANTHROPOLOGY?Applying Anthropology in and to Development; Chapter 6. ANTHROPOLOGY AT THE CENTRE: Reflections on Research, Policy Guidance and Decision Support.; Chapter 7.SPEAKING OF SILENCE: Reflections on the Application of Anthropology to the U.K. Health Services; PART IV. ANTHROPOLOGISTS IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN: ANTHROPOLOGY MEDIA AND LAW; Chapter 8. ANTHROPOLOGISTS IN TELEVISION: A Disappearing World?

Chapter 9. RESEARCH, REPRESENTATIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES: An Anthropologist in the Contested World of FoxhuntingChapter 10. 'CULTURE' IN COURT: Albanian Migrants and the Anthropologistas Expert Witness; NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9780857456885

0857456881

OCLC:

1058203283