Public Anthropology in a Borderless World:

Anthropologists have acted as experts and educators on the nature and ways of life of people worldwide, working to understand the human condition in broad comparative perspective. As a discipline, anthropology has often advocated - and even defended - the cultural integrity, authenticity, and autono...

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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York ; Oxford Berghahn Books [2015]
Series:Studies in Public and Applied Anthropology 8
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Online Access:DE-1046
DE-1043
DE-858
DE-859
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Summary:Anthropologists have acted as experts and educators on the nature and ways of life of people worldwide, working to understand the human condition in broad comparative perspective. As a discipline, anthropology has often advocated - and even defended - the cultural integrity, authenticity, and autonomy of societies across the globe. Public anthropology today carries out the discipline's original purpose, grounding theories in lived experience and placing empirical knowledge in deeper historical and comparative frameworks. This is a vitally important kind of anthropology that has the goal of improving the modern human condition by actively engaging with people to make changes through research, education, and political action
Item Description:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 07. Nov 2022)
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (412 Seiten)
ISBN:9781782387312
DOI:10.1515/9781782387312

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