Anthropology put to work

Anthropology put to work / edited by Les W. Field and Richard G. Fox.

How do anthropologists work today and how will they work in future? This volume shows that anthropology is put to work in diverse ways. Its goal is to help graduate students and early-career scholars accept the changes without feeling something essential to anthropology has been lost.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Field, Les W., Fox, Richard G. (Richard Gabriel), 1939-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2007.
Series:Wenner-Gren international series.
Subjects:
Applied anthropology.
Anthropology.
anthropology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Regional Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > General.
Anthropology
Applied anthropology
73.03 methods and techniques of ethnology.
Congresses (form)
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Table of Contents:
  • Anthropological collaborations in Colombia / Joanne Rappaport
  • Gray spaces and endless negotiations : forensic anthropology and human rights / Mercedes Doretti and Jennifer Burrell
  • Collaborating to meet the goals of a native sovereign nation : the Tule River tribal history project / Gelya Frank
  • Doing cultural anthropology and disability studies in rehabilitation training and research contexts / Pamela Block
  • In praise of "reckless minds" : making a case for activist anthropology / Charles R. Hale
  • What do indicators indicate? : reflections on the trials and tribulations of using food aid to promote development in Haiti / Drexel G. Woodson
  • Working anthropology : a view from the women's research arena / Linda Basch
  • Potential collaborations and disjunctures in Australian work sites : an experiential rendering / Sandy Toussaint
  • The dilemmas of "working" anthropology in twenty-first-century India / Nandini Sundar
  • Ethnographic alchemy : perspectives on anthropological work from northern Madagascar / Andrew Walsh
  • Reflections on the symposium / Douglas E. Foley.

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