Profiles of anthropological praxis: an international casebook

"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...

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Weitere Verfasser: Redding, Terry M. (HerausgeberIn), Cheney, Charles C. (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York ; Oxford berghahn 2024
Ausgabe:First paperback edition
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Zusammenfassung:"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"--
Beschreibung:Part 1. Economic Development -- Part 2. Communities and the Environment -- Part 3. Cultural Preservation -- Part 4. Health Promotion and Management -- Part 5. Sociocultural Change and Adaptation -- Part 6. Policy Change
Beschreibung:xv, 316 Seiten Illustrationen 24 cm
ISBN:9781805391418
9781800734661
1800734662