03039nam 2200625 450 991081541630332120170821191919.01-78238-037-X10.1515/9781782380375(CKB)2670000000528827(EBL)1337780(SSID)ssj0001131205(PQKBManifestationID)12463558(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001131205(PQKBWorkID)11142550(PQKB)10031736(MiAaPQ)EBC1337780(DE-B1597)636753(DE-B1597)9781782380375(EXLCZ)99267000000052882720130220d2013 uy| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrToward engaged anthropology /edited by Sam Beck, Carl A. MaidaNew York :Berghahn Books,2013.1 online resource (178 p.)Originally published as two special issues of Anthropology in action, volume 16, issues 2-3.0-85745-910-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.Contents; Introduction: Toward Engaged Anthropology; Expert and Lay Knowledge in Pacoima: Public Anthropology and an Essential Tension in Community-based Participatory Action Research; Norwegian Anthropologists Study Minorities at Home: Political and Academic Agendas; Dow Chemical's Knowledge Factories: Action Anthropology against Michigan's Company Town Culture; Producing Knowledge for Public Use: New Challenges in the U.S. Academy; Notes on a Dialogical Anthropology; Mapping Solidarity: How Public Anthropology Provides Guidelines for Advocacy Networks; Lessons from VicosNotes on ContributorsIndex 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 AnthropologyMethodologyAnthropologyPhilosophyAnthropologyFieldworkParticipant observationApplied anthropologyAnthropologyMethodology.AnthropologyPhilosophy.AnthropologyFieldwork.Participant observation.Applied anthropology.306.01Beck SamMalda Carl A.MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910815416303321Toward engaged anthropology4033927UNINA