Description
Book Synopsis 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.
Trade Review "The chapters in this book are all well executed and sprinkled through with references to classic anthropological theorists of the twentieth century…[It] establishes a very effective and thoughtful benchmark in a developing field of writing in anthropology, and deserves to become one of the central works in its field." —Andrew Strathern & Pamela J. Stewart in JRAI
Table of Contents List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Applications of Anthropology
Sarah Pink
PART I: THE HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT OF APPLIED ANTHROPOLOGY IN THE U.K.
Chapter 1. Machetes into a Jungle? A History of Anthropology in Policy and Practice, 1981–2000
Susan Wright
Chapter 2. Dinner at Claridges? Anthropology and the ‘Captains of Industry’, 1947–1955
David Mills
PART II: ANTHROPOLOGY AND INDUSTRY
Chapter 3. The Pure and the Impure? Reflections on Applying Anthropology and Doing Ethnography
Simon Roberts
Chapter 4. The Need to Engage with Non-Ethnographic Research Methods: A Personal View
Adam Drazin
PART III: ANTHROPOLOGY AND THE PUBLIC SECTOR
Chapter 5. International Development, Social Analysis, and Anthropology? Applying Anthropology in and to Development
Maia Green
Chapter 6. Anthropology at the Centre: Reflections on Research, Policy Guidance and Decision Support
Mils Hills
Chapter 7. Speaking of Silence: Reflections on the Application of Anthropology to the U.K. Health Services
Elizabeth Hart
PART IV ANTHROPOLOGISTS IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN: ANTHROPOLOGY MEDIA AND LAW
Chapter 8. Anthropologists in Television: A Disappearing World?
Paul Henley
Chapter 9. Research, Representations and Responsibilities: An Anthropologist in the Contested World of Foxhunting
Garry Marvin
Chapter 10. ‘Culture’ in Court: Albanian Migrants and the Anthropologist as Expert Witness
Stephanie Schwandner-Sievers
Notes on Contributors
Index
