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Engaged Observer : Anthropology, Advocacy, and Activism /

"Anthropology has long been associated with an ethos of "engagement." The field's core methods and practices involve long-term interpersonal contact between researchers and their study participants, giving major research topics in the field a distinctively human face. The fact th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Angel-Ajani, Asale, Sanford, Victoria
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 2006.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Excavations of the heart : reflections on truth, memory, and structures of understanding / Victoria Sanford
  • Scholarship, advocacy, and the politics of engagement in Burma (Myanmar) / Monique Skidmore
  • War and the nature of ultimate things : an essay on the study of postwar cultures / Roberta Culbertson
  • Expert witness : notes toward revisiting the politics of listening / Asale Angel-Ajani
  • Moral chronologies : generation and popular memory in a Palestinian refugee camp / John Collins
  • "In our beds and our graves" : revealing the politics of pleasure and pain in the time of AIDS / Michael J. Bosia
  • Portrait of a paramilitary ; putting a human face on the Colombian conflict / Aldo Civico
  • Fratricidal war or ethnocidal strategy? : women's experience with political violence in Chiapas / R. Aída Hernández Castillo
  • Indigenous women and gendered resistance in the wake of acteal : a feminist activist research perspective / Shannon Speed
  • It's a hard place to be a revolutionary woman : finding peace and justice in postwar El Salvador / Irina Carlota Silber
  • Perils and promises of engaged anthropology : historical transitions and ethnographic dilemmas / Kay B. Warren
  • Knowledge in the service of a vision : politically engaged anthropology / Dana-Ain Davis.