Toward Engaged Anthropology

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-85745-910-7
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 178 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 235 g

By working with underserved communities, anthropologists may play a larger role in democratizing society. The growth of disparities challenges anthropology to be used for social justice. This engaged stance moves the application of anthropological theory, methods, and practice toward action and activism. However, this engagement also moves anthropologists away from traditional roles of observation toward participatory roles that become increasingly involved with those communities or social groupings being studied. The chapters in this book suggest the roles anthropologists are able to play to bring us closer to a public anthropology characterized as engagement.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Beck, Sam

Maida, Carl A.

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Verwaltungsrecht Verwaltungspraxis Kommunal- und Regionalverwaltung
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Politische Ethnologie, Recht, Organisation, Identität
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Kommunal-, Regional-, und Landespolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Politische Kommunikation und Partizipation

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction:  Public Anthropology

Sam Beck and Carl A. Maida

Chapter 1. Expert and Lay Knowledge in Pacoima:  Public Anthropology and Essential Tension in Community-based Participatory Action Research

Carl A. Maida

Chapter 2. Norwegian Anthropologists Study Minorities at Home: Political and Academic Agendas

Thomas Hylland-Eriksen

Chapter 3. Dow Chemical’s Knowledge Factories: Action Anthropology against Michigan’s Company Town Culture

Brian McKenna

Chapter 4.Producing Knowledge for Public Use: New Challenges in the U.S. Academy

Judith Goode

Chapter 5. Notes on a Dialogical Anthropology

Udi Mandel Butler

Chapter 6. Mapping Solidarity: How Public Anthropology Provides Guidelines for Advocacy Networks

Raul Acosta

Chapter 7. Lessons from Vicos

Billie Jean Isbell

Über Autor(innen)

Beck, Sam
Sam Beck is Senior Lecturer in the College of Human Ecology and Director of the Urban Semester Program of Cornell University. His publications include Ethnicity and Nationalism in Southeastern Europe (1981, ed with John W. Cole) and Manny Almeida’s Ringside Lounge: The Cape Verdean Struggle for their Neighborhood (1992).

Maida, Carl A.
Carl A. Maida is Professor in the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at the University of California, Los Angeles. His publications include Sustainability and Communities of Place (2007), Pathways through Crisis: Urban Risk and Public Culture (2008), Children and Disasters (1999), and The Crisis of Competence: Transitional Stress and the Displaced Worker (1990).

Sam Beck is Senior Lecturer in the College of Human Ecology and Director of the Urban Semester Program of Cornell University. His publications include Ethnicity and Nationalism in Southeastern Europe (1981, ed with John W. Cole) and Manny Almeida’s Ringside Lounge: The Cape Verdean Struggle for their Neighborhood (1992).