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Public Anthropology in a Borderless World
Sam Beck (Ed.)
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Description for Public Anthropology in a Borderless World
Hardback. Today anthropologists carry out the discipline's original purpose of understanding and advocating for cultural integrity of societies across the globe. Public anthropology, likewise, is an important genre of anthropology with the goal of actively engaging with people to make changes to improve the modern human condition. Editor(s): Beck, Sam; Maida, Carl A. Series: Studies in Public and Applied Anthropology. Num Pages: 388 pages, 44 illustrations. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 160 x 236 x 32. Weight in Grams: 782.
Anthropologists have acted as experts and educators on the nature and life ways of people worldwide, working to understand the human condition in broad comparative perspectives. As a discipline, anthropology has been advocate - and even defender - of 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, then, is a vitally important kind of anthropology with the goal of improving the modern human condition by actively engaging with people to make changes through research, education, and political action.
Product Details
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Series
Studies in Public and Applied Anthropology
Condition
New
Weight
781g
Number of Pages
388
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781782387305
SKU
V9781782387305
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Ref
99-15
About Sam Beck (Ed.)
Sam Beck is Senior Lecturer in the College of Human Ecology and Director of the Urban Semester Program at Cornell University. His publications include Manny Almeida's Ringside Lounge: The Cape Verdean Struggle for Their Neighborhood (1992) and Toward Engaged Anthropology (2013, ed. with Carl A. Maida). Carl A. Maida is Professor in the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability and Director of the Pre-College Science Education Program at the University of California, Los Angeles. His publications include Sustainability and Communities of Place (2007) and Pathways through Crisis: Urban Risk and Public Culture (2008).
Reviews for Public Anthropology in a Borderless World
[This] collection fruitfully examines how the turn to public engagement is transforming the discipline - leading anthropologists to reconsider the researcher's subject position and to use new techniques for conducting, communicating, and applying research to communities and publics. Contributors offer candid perspectives on their personal and professional transformations as they turn to a more engaged scholarly practice.
Krista Harper, University of Massachusetts Amherst ... a truly fascinating read. It should provide countless inspiration for anthropologists of today and of tomorrow. The case for public anthropology has now surely been well and truly made.
Angie Hart, University of Brighton
Krista Harper, University of Massachusetts Amherst ... a truly fascinating read. It should provide countless inspiration for anthropologists of today and of tomorrow. The case for public anthropology has now surely been well and truly made.
Angie Hart, University of Brighton