Profiles of Anthropological Praxis

An International Casebook

Terry M. Redding, Charles C. Cheney (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

326 Seiten

2024
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80539-141-8 (ISBN)

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The book Profiles of Anthropological Praxis is something of a sequel to Anthropological Praxis: Translating Knowledge into Action, published in 1987 (Westview Press). As a casebook of anthropological projects, the new version shares a fascinating breadth of award-winning projects undertaken by applied anthropologists to address the needs of an array of stakeholders and situations. Each chapter will describe a problem and how a project attempted to address it with the following structure: Problem Overview, Project Description, Anthropologist’s Role and Impact, Outcomes, and the Anthropological Difference – that is, how the unique approaches of anthropology were effectively applied to address human problems.

Terry M. Redding is currently a Strategic Communications Specialist with a maternal and child health project funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). He has served as president of the Washington Association of Professional Anthropologists and as communications chair for the National Association for the Practice of Anthropology.

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Foreword

Shirley J. Fiske and Robert M. Wulff

Introduction

Terry M. Redding and Charles C. Cheney

Part I: Economic Development

Chapter 1. Applying Anthropology in Emergency Food Security Recovery: An Afghanistan Case

Adam Koons

Chapter 2. Ecotourism in One Amazon Community Over 25 Years: My Role as Anthropologist, Witness, Scribe, and Facilitator

Amanda Stronza

Chapter 3. Ethnic Minority Women-Led Routine Road Maintenance in Vietnam

Mari Clarke

Part II: Communities and the Environment

Chapter 4. New Pathways Toward the Co-management of Natural Resources in Puerto Rico: Applied Anthropology, Public Access, and Environmental Public Policy

Federico Cintrón-Moscoso

Chapter 5. Deal Island Peninsula Partnership: Applying Environmental Anthropology, Ethnography, and Collaborative Learning

Michael Paolisso, Elizabeth Van Dolah, Katherine J. Johnson, and Christine D. Miller Hesed

Chapter 6. Marcellus Shale Public Health Study

Thurka Sangaramoorthy

Part III: Cultural Preservation

Chapter 7. The Denver Museum of Nature & Science Repatriation Initiative

Stephen E. Nash and Chip Colwell

Chapter 8. Alan Boraas and Kahtnuht'ana Qenaga: Preserving and Renewing an Alaska Native Language

Kerry D. Feldman and Phyllis A. Fast

Chapter 9. San Diego’s Little Saigon: Using Anthropologically Informed Outreach to Create a New Public Space

Stephen Weidlich

Part IV: Health Promotion and Management

Chapter 10. Pastors at Risk: Toward an Improved Culture of Health for United Methodist Clergy in North Carolina

Cathleen E. Crain, Nathaniel Tashima, and Terry M. Redding

Chapter 11. Anthropology in an Epidemic: Ebola in West Africa

Olive Minor

Chapter 12. Caring Together, Living Better: Anthropologists Contributions to a Caregiver Support Program in the South Suburbs of Cook County, IL

Rebecca L. H. Berman and Madelyn Iris

Chapter 13. A Video Ethnographic Study: Raising Healthy Children in Poverty and Examples of Excellence in Addressing Childhood Wellness

Cathleen E. Crain, Nathaniel Tashima, Reiko Ishihara-Brito, and Erick Lee Cummings

Part V: Sociocultural Change and Adaptation

Chapter 14. Dug-well Revival: an Ethnographic Project for Drinking Water in North Bihar, India

Luisa Cortesi

Chapter 15. A New Model for News: Studying the Deep Structure of Young-Adult News Consumption

Robbie Blinkoff

Chapter 16. Learning to Live with Difference: How CEDAR Takes Anthropology Out of the Classroom and Into the World

David W. Montgomery, Adam B. Seligman, and Rahel R. Wasserfall

Chapter 17. Birangona: Towards Ethical Testimonies of Sexual Violence During Conflict

Nayanika Mookherjee

Part VI: Policy Change

Chapter 18. Anthropology in Action: An Anthropologist's Role in Restoring U.S. Support to the United Nations Population Fund

Barbara Pillsbury

Chapter 19. Decent Care: Shifting the Health Care Paradigm

Cathleen E. Crain and Nathaniel Tashima

Chapter 20. Applying Anthropological Perspectives and Methods in Evaluations of Persistent Undercounts of Race and Hispanic Minorities and Young Children in U.S. Censuses

Laurie Schwede

Chapter 21. Using the Concept of Social Well-Being to Develop and Implement a Framework for UNICEF Planning and Evaluating Efforts to Achieve Rights and Development Goals for Children and Families

Mark Edberg

Conclusion

Terry M. Redding and Charles C. Cheney

Afterword

Riall W. Nolan

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	13.12.2023
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Wirtschaft
ISBN-10	1-80539-141-0 / 1805391410
ISBN-13	978-1-80539-141-8 / 9781805391418
Zustand	Neuware