Description
Book Synopsis 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.
Trade Review “This book is terrific! The reader gets to travel around the world with different anthropologists, get exposed to important issues of the day, and observe how those anthropologists try to address those issues. Each chapter sheds light on how anthropologists bring their knowledge, perspective and skills together to make the world a better place.” • Elizabeth K. Briody, Purdue University
“This volume is a relevant, timely, and valuable contribution to anthropological praxis. Each case study illustrates the theoretical rigor, ethnographic expertise, and ethical principles that inform the anthropological study of human problems across regions and field sites.” • Kathryn A. Kozaitis, Georgia State University
Table of Contents List of Illustrations
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
