Engaged observer : anthropology, advocacy, and activism / edited by Victoria Sanford and Asale Angel-Ajani ; foreword by Philippe Bourgois.

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Book
Language
English
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New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2006.
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xii, 254 pages ; 23 cm

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    "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. The fact that these interactions frequently cross social parameters, including class, race, ethnicity, and gender, raises important questions. 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 this book, authors 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".--BOOKJACKET.
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    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • Excavations of the heart : reflections on truth, memory, and structures of understanding / Victoria Sanford
    • Scholarship, advocacy, and the politics of engagement in Burma (Myanmar) / Monique Skidmore
    • War and the nature of ultimate things : an essay on the study of postwar cultures / Roberta Culbertson
    • Expert witness : notes toward revisiting the politics of listening / Asale Angel-Ajani
    • Moral chronologies : generation and popular memory in a Palestinian refugee camp / John Collins
    • "In our beds and our graves" : revealing the politics of pleasure and pain in the time of AIDS / Michael J. Bosia
    • Portrait of a paramilitary ; putting a human face on the Colombian conflict / Aldo Civico
    • Fratricidal war or ethnocidal strategy? : women's experience with political violence in Chiapas / R. Aída Hernández Castillo
    • Indigenous women and gendered resistance in the wake of acteal : a feminist activist research perspective / Shannon Speed
    • It's a hard place to be a revolutionary woman : finding peace and justice in postwar El Salvador / Irina Carlota Silber
    • Perils and promises of engaged anthropology : historical transitions and ethnographic dilemmas / Kay B. Warren
    • Knowledge in the service of a vision : politically engaged anthropology / Dana-Ain Davis.
    ISBN
    • 0813538912 ((hardcover ; : alk. paper))
    • 0813538920 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
    • 9780813538914
    • 9780813538921
    LCCN
    2006005654
    OCLC
    64289071
    International Article Number
    • 9780813538914
    • 9780813538921
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