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

Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2006.
Description
xii, 254 p. ; 23 cm.

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    Bibliographic references
    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)
    LCCN
    2006005654
    OCLC
    64289071
    International Article Number
    • 9780813538914
    • 9780813538921
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