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.
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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 Structural Engagement: Making Ameliorating Social Inequality Our Primary Agenda
Merrill Singer
Chapter 6.Public Anthropology and the Transformation of Anthropological Research
Louise Lamphere
Chapter 7.Public Anthropology and Its Reception
Judith Goode
Chapter 8.Anthropology for Whom? Challenges and Prospels#
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