Applications of anthropology : professional anthropology in the twenty-first century

Applications of anthropology : professional anthropology in the twenty-first century / edited by Sarah Pink.

At the beginning of the twenty-first century the demand for anthropological approaches, understandings and methodologies outside academic departments is shifting and changing. Through a series of fascinating case studies of anthropologists' experiences of working with very diverse organizations...

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Other Authors: Pink, Sarah
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Berghahn Books, 2006.
Series:Studies in public and applied anthropology ; v. 2.
Subjects:
Applied anthropology > Philosophy.
Applied anthropology > Methodology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Regional Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
Applied anthropology > Methodology
Applied anthropology > Philosophy
Angewandte Anthropologie
Ethnologie
Methode
Anwendungsbereich
Realisierung
Gegenwart
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Table of Contents:
  • Machetes into a jungle? A history of anthropology in policy and practice, 1981-2000 / Susan Wright
  • Dinner at Claridges? Anthropology and the 'captains of industry', 1947-1955 / David Mills
  • The pure and the impure? Reflections on applying anthropology and doing ethnography / Simon Roberts
  • The need to engage with non-ethnographic research methods : a personal view / Adam Drazin
  • International development, social analysis ... and anthropology? Applying anthropology in and to development / Maia Green
  • Anthropology at the centre : reflections on research, policy guidance and decision support / Mils Hills
  • Speaking of silence : reflections on the application of anthropology to the U.K. health services / Elizabeth Hart
  • Anthropologists in television : a disappearing world? / Paul Henley
  • Research, representations and responsibilities : an anthropologist in the contested world of foxhunting / Garry Marvin
  • 'Culture' in court : Albanian migrants and the anthropologist as expert witness / Stephanie Schwandner-Sievers.

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