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Sarah Pink - Media, Anthropology and Public Engagement - 9781782388463 - V9781782388463
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Media, Anthropology and Public Engagement

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Description for Media, Anthropology and Public Engagement Hardcover. Contemporary anthropologists' engagement with social & digital media simultaneously offers opportunities to disseminate work in new ways, while challenging scholars to move into unfamiliar collaborative domains & expose their research to new forms of scrutiny. This volume's contributors question whether a fresh public anthropology is emerging. Editor(s): Pink, Sarah; Abram, Simone. Series: Studies in Public and Applied Anthropology. Num Pages: 232 pages, 7 illustrations, 4 tables. BIC Classification: JFD; JHM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. .

Contemporary anthropology is done in a world where social and digital media are playing an increasingly significant role, where anthropological and arts practices are often intertwined in museum and public intervention contexts, and where anthropologists are encouraged to engage with mass media. Because anthropologists are often expected and inspired to ensure their work engages with public issues, these opportunities to disseminate work in new ways and to new publics simultaneously create challenges as anthropologists move their practice into unfamiliar collaborative domains and expose their research to new forms of scrutiny. In this volume, contributors question whether a fresh public ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Berghahn Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
Series
Studies in Public and Applied Anthropology
Number of Pages
236
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781782388463
SKU
V9781782388463
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99-15

About Sarah Pink
Sarah Pink is a social anthropologist whose research includes a focus on visual methodologies and the relationship between applied and academic anthropology. Her books include Doing Visual Ethnography (2001), Home Truths (2004), Working Images (2004) and Applications of Anthropology (2005). She is Professor of Design and Emerging Technology at Monash University, Australia.

Reviews for Media, Anthropology and Public Engagement
“The importance of public anthropology has been growing around the world making this a timely edition which, ‘mark[s] a line in the sand about where we are today’  [This volume] provides a place to begin to discuss the different ways in which people are currently engaging in public anthropology, including their methods, types of media used, topics researched and blogs ... Read more

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