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Engaged Observer: Anthropology, Advocacy, and Activism
Rutgers University Press, 2006 Cloth: 978-0-8135-3891-4 | Paper: 978-0-8135-3892-1 Library of Congress Classification GN33.E65 2006 Dewey Decimal Classification 301.01
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Anthropology has long been associated with an ethos of “engagement.” The field’s core methods and practices involve long-term interpersonal contact between researchers and their study participants, giving major research topics in the field a distinctively human face. Can research findings be authentic and objective? Are anthropologists able to use their data to aid the participants of their study, and is that aid always welcome? See other books on: Activism | Advocacy | Political anthropology | Social conflict | Social justice See other titles from Rutgers University Press |
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Engaged Observer: Anthropology, Advocacy, and Activism
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | TOC
Rutgers University Press, 2006
Cloth: 978-0-8135-3891-4
Paper: 978-0-8135-3892-1
Cloth: 978-0-8135-3891-4
Paper: 978-0-8135-3892-1
Anthropology has long been associated with an ethos of “engagement.” The field’s core methods and practices involve long-term interpersonal contact between researchers and their study participants, giving major research topics in the field a distinctively human face. Can research findings be authentic and objective? Are anthropologists able to use their data to aid the participants of their study, and is that aid always welcome?
In Engaged Observer, Victoria Sanford and Asale Angel-Ajani bring together an international array of scholars who have been embedded in some of the most conflict-ridden and dangerous zones in the world to reflect on the role and responsibility of anthropological inquiry. They explore issues of truth and objectivity, the role of the academic, the politics of memory, and the impact of race, gender, and social position on the research process. Through ethnographic case studies, they offer models for conducting engaged research and illustrate the contradictions and challenges of doing so.
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