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Applied Anthropology (applied + anthropology)
Selected AbstractsRECENT CHANGES AND TRENDS IN THE PRACTICE OF APPLIED ANTHROPOLOGYANNALS OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL PRACTICE, Issue 1 2008Satish Kedia The emergent global economy of the 21st century will create an ever greater need for research-based information and pragmatic utilization of social science skills, creating new work opportunities for applied anthropologists in a variety of settings. However, anthropologists may need to adjust their traditional roles and tasks, approaches and methods, and priorities and guidelines to practice their craft effectively. Anthropological training and education must be based in sound ethnographic techniques, using contemporary tools, participatory methods, and interdisciplinary knowledge in order to accommodate faster-paced work environments and to disseminate their findings efficiently to a diverse audience while fulfilling the goal of empowering and enabling humans around the world to address social, economic, and health issues, along with other pressing concerns facing their communities. [source] Applied Anthropology: Domains of ApplicationAMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST, Issue 4 2006CARLA GUERRÓN-MONTERO Applied Anthropology: Domains of Application. Satish Kediaand John van Willigen. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2005. 376 pp. [source] Applied anthropology at GoldsmithsANTHROPOLOGY TODAY, Issue 1 2005Jean Besson No abstract is available for this article. [source] Applied Anthropology/antropología de la gestión: Debating the Uses of Anthropology in the United States and Latin America: From Policy Ethnography to Theory of Practice: Introductory ConsiderationsJOURNAL OF LATIN AMERICAN & CARIBBEAN ANTHROPOLOGY, Issue 2 2001Judith Freidenberg In this set of articles, three anthropologists based in Latin America discuss the politics and practicalities of doing applied anthropology in Mexico and Puerto Rico ,a discussion based in their own working lives as researchers ,while two anthropologists based in the United States (Sidney Mintz and myself) provide some commentary. Our goal is to contribute to the "decolonizing of anthropology" (Harrison 1997): by expanding current questions posed in the U.S. to other countries, our intent is to transform what has largely been a discourse on a "native" anthropology (NAPA1995) into a "transnational" anthropology (Hannerz 1998). Thus, rather than a survey of current practice in applied anthropology in the Americas, this special section is offered as an invitation to dialogue, and a call for greater discussion among anthropologists concerned with the application of knowledge in different nations and/or regions of the Americas. [source] Anthropology and Fisheries Management in the United StatesANNALS OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL PRACTICE, Issue 1 2007Palma Ingles The collection of articles in this volume of NAPA Bulletin describes various types of social science research currently conducted in support of federal and state fisheries management by anthropologists and sociologists studying fishing-dependent communities and fisheries participants. The contributors work for NOAA, National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS); various state fisheries agencies; in academia; or as contract researchers. These articles represent a wide geographical range, employ a diverse set of methods, and demonstrate different research goals ranging from responding to specific statutory or management requirements to establishing broader baseline social information to exploring the theoretical constructs that constrain or advance the field of applied anthropology in fisheries. This introduction provides background to the recent expansion of anthropological capacity in U.S. fisheries management and the divergent methods employed by practitioners. The range of methods includes classic ethnography and survey methods, cultural modeling, participatory research, and quantitative indicators-based assessment. The compilation of articles presents an opportunity to think about standardizing some methodological approaches for certain types of tasks, while expanding the array of accepted methodologies available to anthropologists advising fisheries managers. [source] Refocusing with applied anthropologyANTHROPOLOGY TODAY, Issue 1 2004Gerald Mars No abstract is available for this article. [source] | ||||||||||