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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797911803321

Titolo

Media, anthropology and public engagement / / edited by Sarah Pink and Simone Abram

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, [New York] : , : Berghahn Books, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-78238-847-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (236 p.)

Collana

Studies in public and applied anthropology

Classificazione

AP 14000

Disciplina

301

Soggetti

Applied anthropology - Philosophy

Mass media and anthropology

Applied anthropology - Methodology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Mediating Publics and Anthropology; Part I - Anthropology in the Public Media Sphere; Chapter 1 - Doing Anthropology in Public: Examples from the Basque Country; Chapter 2 - The Perils of Public Anthropology? Quiescent Anthropology in Neo-Nationalist Scandinavia; Chapter 3 - For a Creative Anthropological Image-Making: Reflections on Aesthetics, Relationality, Spectatorship and Knowledge in the Context of Visual Ethnographic Work in New Delhi, India

Chapter 4 - A Language for Re-Generation: Boundary Crossing and Re-Formation at the Intersection of Media Ethnography and TheatreChapter 5 - Social Movements and Video Indígena in Latin America: Key Challenges for 'Anthropological Otherwise'; Part II - Public Anthropology and Social Media; Chapter 6 - Anthropology by the Wire; Chapter 7 - Public Anthropology in Times of Media Hybridity and Global Upheaval; Chapter 8 - Anthropological Publics and their Onlookers: The Dynamics of Multiple Audiences in the Blog 'Savage Minds'

Chapter 9 - The Open Anthropology Cooperative: Towards an Online Public AnthropologyIndex

Sommario/riassunto

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 anthropology is emerging through these new practices.