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Book SynopsisThrough a series of case studies by leading anthropologists, Cool Anthropology highlights the many different approaches that scholars have used to engage the public with their research. Editors Kristina Baines and Victoria Costa showcase efforts to make meaningful connections with communities outside the walls of academia, moving anthropological thinking beyond the discipline. Through their focus on collaborative efforts, contributors push against the exclusivity of knowledge production to ask how engaging communities as both producers and consumers of academic research helps to promote anthropology better and do anthropology better.
Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Part One: Imperatives 1 Making Anthropology Cool: Translating Anthropological Research and Concepts Using Multimedia Kristina Baines and Victoria Costa 2 Getting Knowledge from the Ivory Tower to the Street: Making Anthropology Matter Agustín Fuentes 3 The Urgency of Now: Crafting and Editing Anthropological Knowledge in Real Time Maria D. Vesperi Part Two: The World Wide Web 4 Cool Enough to Make a Difference Daniel H. Lende 5 PopAnth: The Conversation Erin B. Taylor, John McCreery, and Gwendolen Lynch 6 SAPIENS: An Origins Story Chip Colwell and Leslie Aiello Part Three: Reimaging Public Spaces 7 Visualizing Immigrant Phoenix: An Urban Visual Ethnographic Collaborative Kristin Koptiuch 8 The Tale Is the Map: Virtual Reality Experiences in Anthropology Scott Wilson 9 Creating Inclusive Public Space: Participatory Design Ethnography in a University Library Krista Harper 10 Extravagance Outside of Anthropology: How to Sell Analytic Induction to Entrepreneurs James Mullooly Part Four: Creatives 11 Rez-Colored Glasses: Disentangling Indigenous Lives from the Colonial Gaze Gregg Deal and Kerry Hawk Lessard 12 Sonic Anthropology: From Remixing Archives to Reimagining Cultures Tom Miller 13 Engaging a Wider Audience with Fiction Film Carylanna Taylor 14 Let Us Do More than Hope: Comics, Complexity and an Anthropology in Pictures and Words Sally Campbell Galman Contributors Index
