Public Anthropology in a Borderless WorldSam Beck, Carl A. Maida 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. |
Contents
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Coconstructing Public Knowledge and Bridging KnowledgeAction Communities Through Participatory Action Research | 36 |
Participatory Action Research in a Museum Setting | 66 |
Giving Voice to Environmental Justice in Pacoima | 89 |
Chapter 4 PoliticalEthical Dilemmas Participant Observed | 118 |
Making Ameliorating Social Inequality Our Primary Agenda | 144 |
Chapter 6 Public Anthropology and the Transformation of Anthropological Research | 162 |
Chapter 7 Public Anthropology and Its Reception | 192 |
Chapter 8 Anthropology for Whom? Challenges and Prospects of Activist Scholarship | 221 |
A Study of Aspirations to Inclusive Public Dialogues in Mexico and Its Repercussions | 247 |
Anthropology in the Public Sphere and The Two Cultures | 264 |
Young People and Public Action in Rio de Janeiro | 286 |
Graffiti Transformations | 314 |
New Housing for Amui Djor Residents | 351 |
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