Public Anthropology: Engaging Social Issues in the Modern World
Edward J. Hedican, "Public Anthropology: Engaging Social Issues in the Modern World"
2016 | ISBN-10: 1442635894, 1442635886 | 272 pages | PDF | 10 MB
2016 | ISBN-10: 1442635894, 1442635886 | 272 pages | PDF | 10 MB
Contemporary anthropology has changed drastically in the new millennium, expanding beyond the anachronistic study of "primitive" societies to confront the burning social, economic, and political challenges of the day. In the process, anthropologists often bump up against issues that require them to take a public position-issues such as race and tolerance, health and well-being, food security, reconciliation and public justice, global terror and militarism, and media in the emerging global electronic community.
In Public Anthropology, Edward J. Hedican provides readers with an opportunity to explore contemporary anthropological research as well as the more public issues that anthropologists must engage with as they conduct that research, while encouraging them to think about how involved anthropologists should be in these issues.