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Engaged observer : anthropology, advocacy, and activism / edited by Victoria Sanford and Asale Angel-Ajani ; foreword by Philippe Bourgois.
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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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Firestone Library - Stacks
GN33 .E65 2006
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Anthropology
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Political anthropology
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Anthropological ethics
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Social conflict
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Sanford, Victoria
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Summary note
"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.
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.
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ISBN
0813538912 ((hardcover ; : alk. paper))
0813538920 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
9780813538914
9780813538921
LCCN
2006005654
OCLC
64289071
International Article Number
9780813538914
9780813538921
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