Public Anthropology in a Borderless World [Hardcover]

Anthropologists have acted as experts and educators on the nature and ways of life of people worldwide, working to understand the human condition in broad comparative perspective. As a discipline, anthropology has often advocated  and even defended  the cultural integrity, authenticity, and autonomy of societies across the globe. Public anthropology today carries out the disciplines original purpose, grounding theories in lived experience and placing empirical knowledge in deeper historical and comparative frameworks. This is a vitally important kind of anthropology that has the goal of improving the modern human condition by actively engaging with people to make changes through research, education, and political action.

Sam Beckis Senior Lecturer in the College of Human Ecology and Director of the Urban Semester Program at Cornell University. His publications includeManny Almeidas Ringside Lounge: The Cape Verdean Struggle for Their Neighborhood(1992) andToward Engaged Anthropology(2013, ed. with Carl A. Maida).

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Introduction
Carl A. Maida and Sam Beck

Chapter 1.Community-Based Research Organizations: Co-constructing Public Knowledge and Bridging Knowledge/Action Communities through Participatory Action Research
Jean J. Schensul

Chapter 2.Crossing the Line: Participatory Action Research in a Museum Setting
Alaka Wali and Madeleine Tudor

Chapter 3.Monitoring the Commons: Giving Voice to Environmental Justice in Pacoima
Carl A. Maida

Chapter 4.Political-Ethical Dilemmas Participant Observed
Josiah McC. Heyman

Chapter 5.Public Anthropology and StructulcÇ