Applications of Anthropology : : Professional Anthropology in the Twenty-first Century / / ed. by Sarah Pink.

• MitwirkendeR: Drazin, Adam,; Green, Maia,; Hart, Elizabeth,; Henley, Paul,; Hills, Mils,; Marvin, Garry,; Mills, David,; Pink, Sarah,; Roberts, Simon,; Schwandner-Sievers, Stephanie,; Wright, Susan,
• HerausgeberIn: Pink, Sarah,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2005]; ©2005
• Year of Publication: 2005
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Public and Applied Anthropology ; 2
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)

At the beginning of the twenty-first century the demand for anthropological approaches, understandings and methodologies outside academic departments is shifting and changing. Through a series of fascinating case studies of anthropologists’ experiences of working with very diverse organizations in the private and public sector this volume examines existing and historical debates about applied anthropology. It explores the relationship between the "pure and the impure" – academic and applied anthropology, the question of anthropological identities in new working environments, new methodologies appropriate to these contexts, the skills needed by anthropologists working in applied contexts where multidisciplinary work is often undertaken, issues of ethics and responsibility, and how anthropology is perceived from the ‘outside’. The volume signifies an encouraging future both for the application of anthropology outside academic departments and for the new generation of anthropologists who might be involved in these developments.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- PART I THE HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT OF APPLIED ANTHROPOLOGY IN THE U.K -- INTRODUCTION: Applications of Anthropology -- Chapter 1 MACHETES INTO A JUNGLE? A History of Anthropology in Policy and Practice, 1981–2000 -- Chapter 2 DINNER AT CLARIDGES? Anthropology and the ‘Captains of Industry’, 1947–1955 -- PART II ANTHROPOLOGY AND INDUSTRY -- Chapter 3 THE PURE AND THE IMPURE? Reflections on Applying Anthropology and Doing Ethnography -- Chapter 4 THE NEED TO ENGAGE WITH NON-ETHNOGRAPHIC RESEARCH METHODS A Personal View -- PART III ANTHROPOLOGY AND THE PUBLIC SECTOR -- Chapter 5 INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT, SOCIAL ANALYSIS, … AND ANTHROPOLOGY? Applying Anthropology in and to Development -- Chapter 6 ANTHROPOLOGY AT THE CENTRE: Reflections on Research, Policy Guidance and Decision Support -- Chapter 7 SPEAKING OF SILENCE: Reflections on the Application of Anthropology to the U.K. Health Services -- PART IV ANTHROPOLOGISTS IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN: ANTHROPOLOGY MEDIA AND LAW -- Chapter 8 ANTHROPOLOGISTS IN TELEVISION: A Disappearing World? -- Chapter 9 RESEARCH, REPRESENTATIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES: An Anthropologist in the Contested World of Foxhunting -- Chapter 10 ‘CULTURE’ IN COURT: Albanian Migrants and the Anthropologist as Expert Witness -- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX