Engaged Anthropology

Author : Stuart Kirsch
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520297944

Get Book

Engaged Anthropology by Stuart Kirsch Pdf

Does anthropology have more to offer than just its texts? In this timely and remarkable book, Stuart Kirsch shows how anthropology can—and why it should—become more engaged with the problems of the world. Engaged Anthropology draws on the author’s experiences working with indigenous peoples fighting for their environment, land rights, and political sovereignty. Including both short interventions and collaborations spanning decades, it recounts interactions with lawyers and courts, nongovernmental organizations, scientific experts, and transnational corporations. This unflinchingly honest account addresses the unexamined “backstage” of engaged anthropology. Coming at a time when some question the viability of the discipline, the message of this powerful and original work is especially welcome, as it not only promotes a new way of doing anthropology, but also compellingly articulates a new rationale for why anthropology matters.

Author : Sam Beck,Carl A. Maida
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781782380375

Get Book

Toward Engaged Anthropology by Sam Beck,Carl A. Maida Pdf

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.

Author : Michelle Hegmon,B. Sunday Eiselt
Publisher : U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780915703586

Get Book

Engaged Anthropology by Michelle Hegmon,B. Sunday Eiselt Pdf

Author : Thomas Hylland Eriksen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000183177

Get Book

Engaging Anthropology by Thomas Hylland Eriksen Pdf

Anthropology ought to have changed the world. What went wrong? Engaging Anthropology takes an unflinching look at why the discipline has not gained the popularity and respect it deserves in the twenty-first century. From identity to multicultural society, new technologies to work, globalization to marginalization, anthropology has a vital contribution to make. While showcasing the intellectual power of the discipline, Eriksen takes the anthropological community to task for its unwillingness to engage more proactively with the media in a wide range of current debates. If anthropology matters as a key tool with which to understand modern society beyond the ivory towers of academia, why are so few anthropologists willing to come forward in times of national or global crisis? Eriksen argues that anthropology needs to rediscover the art of narrative and abandon arid analysis and, more provocatively, anthropologists need to lose their fear of plunging into the vexed issues modern societies present. Engaging Anthropology makes an impassioned plea for positioning anthropology as the universal intellectual discipline. Eriksen has provided the wake-up call we were all awaiting.

Author : Tone Bringa,Synnøve Bendixsen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319404844

Get Book

Engaged Anthropology by Tone Bringa,Synnøve Bendixsen Pdf

In this volume, leading public anthropologists examine paths towards public engagement and discuss their experiences with engaged anthropology in arenas such as the media, international organizations, courtrooms, and halls of government. They discuss topics ranging from migration to cultural understanding, justice, development aid, ethnic conflict, war, and climate change. Through these examples of hands-on experience, the book provides a unique account of challenges faced, opportunities taken, and lessons learned. It illustrates the potential efficacy of an anthropology that engages with critical social and political issues.

Author : Gavin Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1999-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015048755295

Get Book

Confronting the Present by Gavin Smith Pdf

Exploring the politics of an anthropologist, this collection of essays is part of a series which addresses social, political and cultural issues confronting human populations throughout the world.

Author : Victoria Sanford,Asale Angel-Ajani
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813538921

Get Book

Engaged Observer by Victoria Sanford,Asale Angel-Ajani Pdf

"Anthropology has long been associated with an ethos of "engagement." The field's core methods and practices involve long-term interpersonal contact between researchers and their study participants, giving major research topics in the field a distinctively human face. The fact that these interactions frequently cross social parameters, including class, race, ethnicity, and gender, raises important questions. Can research findings be authentic and objective? Are anthropologists able to use their data to aid the participants of their study, and is that aid always welcome? In this book, authors bring together an international array of scholars who have been embedded in some of the most conflict-ridden and dangerous zones in the world to reflect on the role and responsibility of anthropological inquiry. They explore issues of truth and objectivity, the role of the academic, the politics of memory, and the impact of race, gender, and social position on the research process. Through ethnographic case studies, they offer models for conducting engaged research and illustrate the contradictions and challenges of doing so".--BOOKJACKET.

Author : Stuart Kirsch
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520297951

Get Book

Engaged Anthropology by Stuart Kirsch Pdf

Does anthropology have more to offer than just its texts? In this timely and remarkable book, Stuart Kirsch shows how anthropology can—and why it should—become more engaged with the problems of the world. Engaged Anthropology draws on the author’s experiences working with indigenous peoples fighting for their environment, land rights, and political sovereignty. Including both short interventions and collaborations spanning decades, it recounts interactions with lawyers and courts, nongovernmental organizations, scientific experts, and transnational corporations. This unflinchingly honest account addresses the unexamined “backstage” of engaged anthropology. Coming at a time when some question the viability of the discipline, the message of this powerful and original work is especially welcome, as it not only promotes a new way of doing anthropology, but also compellingly articulates a new rationale for why anthropology matters.

Author : Stuart Kirsch
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520970090

Get Book

Engaged Anthropology by Stuart Kirsch Pdf

Does anthropology have more to offer than just its texts? In this timely and remarkable book, Stuart Kirsch shows how anthropology can—and why it should—become more engaged with the problems of the world. Engaged Anthropology draws on the author’s experiences working with indigenous peoples fighting for their environment, land rights, and political sovereignty. Including both short interventions and collaborations spanning decades, it recounts interactions with lawyers and courts, nongovernmental organizations, scientific experts, and transnational corporations. This unflinchingly honest account addresses the unexamined “backstage” of engaged anthropology. Coming at a time when some question the viability of the discipline, the message of this powerful and original work is especially welcome, as it not only promotes a new way of doing anthropology, but also compellingly articulates a new rationale for why anthropology matters.

Author : J. Derrick Lemons
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780192518743

Get Book

Theologically Engaged Anthropology by J. Derrick Lemons Pdf

After years of discussion within the field of anthropology concerning how to properly engage with theology, a growing number of anthropologists now want to engage with theology as a counterpart in ethnographic dialogue. Theologically Engaged Anthropology focuses on the theological history of anthropology, illuminating deeply held theological assumptions that humans make about the nature of reality, and illustrating how these theological assumptions manifest themselves in society. This volume brings together leading anthropologists and theologians to consider what theology can contribute to cultural anthropology and ethnography. It provides anthropologists and theologians with a rationale and framework for using theology in anthropological research.

Author : Paul Sillitoe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781317117223

Get Book

Indigenous Studies and Engaged Anthropology by Paul Sillitoe Pdf

Advancing the rising field of engaged or participatory anthropology that is emerging at the same time as increased opposition from Indigenous peoples to research, this book offers critical reflections on research approaches to-date. The engaged approach seeks to change the researcher-researched relationship fundamentally, to make methods more appropriate and beneficial to communities by involving them as participants in the entire process from choice of research topic onwards. The aim is not only to change power relationships, but also engage with non-academic audiences. The advancement of such an egalitarian and inclusive approach to research can provoke strong opposition. Some argue that it threatens academic rigour and worry about the undermining of disciplinary authority. Others point to the difficulties of establishing an appropriately non-ethnocentric moral stance and navigating the complex problems communities face. Drawing on the experiences of Indigenous scholars, anthropologists and development professionals acquainted with a range of cultures, this book furthers our understanding of pressing issues such as interpretation, transmission and ownership of Indigenous knowledge, and appropriate ways to represent and communicate it. All the contributors recognise the plurality of knowledge and incorporate perspectives that derive, at least in part, from other ways of being in the world.

Author : Joshua Lockyer,James R. Veteto
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-30
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780857458803

Get Book

Environmental Anthropology Engaging Ecotopia by Joshua Lockyer,James R. Veteto Pdf

In order to move global society towards a sustainable "ecotopia," solutions must be engaged in specific places and communities, and the authors here argue for re-orienting environmental anthropology from a problem-oriented towards a solutions-focused endeavor. Using case studies from around the world, the contributors-scholar-activists and activist-practitioners- examine the interrelationships between three prominent environmental social movements: bioregionalism, a worldview and political ecology that grounds environmental action and experience; permaculture, a design science for putting the bioregional vision into action; and ecovillages, the ever-dynamic settings for creating sustainable local cultures.

Author : Ellen Lewin,William L. Leap
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2009-03-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781444310672

Get Book

Out in Public by Ellen Lewin,William L. Leap Pdf

Out in Public addresses, and engages us in, the new and exciting directions in the emerging field of lesbian/gay anthropology. The authors offer a deep conversation about the meaning of sexuality, subjectivity and culture. Affirms the importance of recognizing gay and lesbian social issues within the arena of public anthropology Explores critical concerns of gay activism in a variety of global settings, from the U.S., the European Union, Singapore, Nigeria, India, Nicaragua, and Guadalajara Offers a unique focus on the politics of being gay and lesbian - in cross-cultural perspective Deals with broad-ranging issues that affect human sexuality and human rights globally Winner of the 2009 Ruth Benedict Prize in the category of "Best Anthology"

Author : Sam Beck,Carl A. Maida
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781782387312

Get Book

Public Anthropology in a Borderless World by Sam Beck,Carl A. Maida Pdf

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 improving the modern human condition by actively engaging with people to make changes through research, education, and political action.

Author : Roy A. Rappaport
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0472111701

Get Book

Ecology and the Sacred by Roy A. Rappaport Pdf

A meaningful homage to an extraordinary anthropologist