Toward Engaged Anthropology

Sam Beck, Carl A. Maida, Sam Beck, Carl A. Maida

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Jahr: 2013
• ISBN:
  9781782380375
• Auflage: 1
• Thema: Sciences sociales
• Thema: Anthropologie culturelle et sociale

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.

Index

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A

Abreu, Roberta

Acosta, Raúl

“active cultural politics,”

advocacy networks

aesthetics civic

agency

Albion College

Alexandria, Virginia

Alliance for Healthy Homes

Alma College

Alta dam controversy

Ambros, Otto

American Anthropology Association (AAA)

American Museum of Natural History

American University

anthropology

issues

asymmetrical discourse

branding

collaborations with government

ethical issues

global versus local concerns

modernization-development paradigm

mutuality

reframing public issues

reframing questions for public discourse versus for media communication

research versus politics

responsibility to people studied

scapegoats for anthropologists

scholar's gaze

theory versus practice

roles

as activist

as decoder of culture

dialogical role

engaged stance

as mediator

participant observation versus participatory role

political versus academic roles

scholarship versus engagement

theories

constructivism

critical theories

cultural relativity versus universal values

deconstructivism

gift theory

modernization theory passim

postcolonial theory

post-structural critiques

Writing Culture perspective

types

action anthropology

advocacy anthropology

Anglophone anthropology

applied anthropology

critical anthropology

dialogical anthropology

interpretive anthropology

liberatory anthropology

medical anthropology

Norwegian anthropology

policy anthropology

public anthropology

social anthropology

visual anthropology

Anthropology on Trial (Nova series)

Appadurai, A.

Ardener, Edwin

Arendt, Hannah

Aronowitz, Stanley

Asad, Talal

Association for India's Development

asthma

Athayde, Celso

audit culture

B

Babb, Florence

Backyard ECO Conference 2005

Barley, Stephen

Barnard College

Barth, Fredrik

Beck, Sam

Becoming Visible (Bratenberg, Hansen and Minde)

Bender, Thomas

Benedict, Ruth

Besteman, Catherine

Bhopal, India

Bhopel.Net

Bill, MV

biodiversity

seed conservation

women and

Bjørklund, Ivar

Black Panther Party

Bledstein, B. J.

Boas, Franz, legacy of

Bodanyi, Ryan

Borovsky, Robert

branding expertise

Brandt, E. N.

Brazil

agriculture in

Cabeça de Porco

Nós: The Revolution of the Day to Day

Xingu River basin

Bringslid, Mary Bente

bromine

Brox, Ottar

Bush, George W.

Butler, Udi

C

Cabeça de Porco

California State University, Northridge (CSUN)

Canarana, Brazil

capitalism

capital accumulation

global capitalism

Capital Times

careers

“specter of uselessness,”

traditional career path

“cargo cult,”

Carnegie Foundation

Casa de los Abuelos

CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

censorship

Central Michigan University

change

agents of

tension and

Cheney, Dick

Chili

Chrysanthemum and the Sword (Benedict)

CIESPI (International Center for Research and Policy on Childhood)

Citizens for Alternatives to Corporate Contamination

citizenship

corporate citizenship

critical citizenship

civil rights

class issues

globalized proletariat

Clifford, James

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