Anthropology and Consultancy: Issues and Debates (Studies in Public and Applied Anthropology) - Softcover

 
9781571815521: Anthropology and Consultancy: Issues and Debates (Studies in Public and Applied Anthropology)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 157181552X ISBN 13: 9781571815521
Verlag: Berghahn Books, 2004

Inhaltsangabe

More and more, anthropologists are recruited as consultants by government departments, companies or as observers of development processes in their field areas generally. Although these roles can be very gratifying, they can create ambiguous situations for the anthropologists who find that new pressures and responsibilities are placed upon them for which their training did not prepare them. This volume explores some of the problems, opportunities, issues, debates, and dilemmas surrounding these roles. The geographic focus of the studies is Papua New Guinea, but the topic and its importance apply widely through the world, for example, Africa, South America, Australia, and the Pacific in general, as well as in relation to indigenous groups in Canada and elsewhere. All the authors have first-hand experience and they address these new pressures and responsibilities of anthropological research. The book's chapters are written in a way that combines scholarship with a style accessible to general readers.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Andrew J. Strathern W. Mellon Professor at the University ofPittsburgh. His interests include the analysis of political and economic systems in small-scale societies, kinship theories, social change, religion,symbolism, ethnicity, legal anthropology, conflict and violence, the anthropology of the body, and the cross-cultural study of medical systems.

Stewart and Strathern have co-authored many articles and books, including Empowering the Past: Confronting the Future (Palgrave, 2004), and Witchcraft, Sorcery, Rumors and Gossip (Cambridge University Press, 2004). Recently, they have co-edited, Landscape, Memory, and History (Pluto Press, 2003), and Contesting Rituals (Carolina Academic Press, 2005).

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Verlag
Berghahn Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2004
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
157181552X
ISBN 13 
9781571815521
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
162
Herausgeber
Stewart Pamela, Strathern Andrew J.
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