Engaged Observer : Anthropology, Advocacy, and Activism Paperback / softback
by Asale Angel-Ajani, Victoria Sanford, Phillippe Bourgois, Irina Carlota Silber, Rosalva Aida Hernandez Castillo, Dr. Monique Skidmore, Shannon Speed
Edited by Victoria Sanford, Asale Angel-Ajani
Paperback / softback
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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.
Can research findings be authentic and objective? Are anthropologists able to use their data to aid the participants of their study, and is that aid always welcome?In Engaged Observer, Victoria Sanford and Asale Angel-Ajani bring together an international array of scholars who have been embedded in some of the most conflict-ridden and dangerous zones in the world to reflect on the role and responsibility of anthropological inquiry. They explore issues of truth and objectivity, the role of the academic, the politics of memory, and the impact of race, gender, and social position on the research process.
Through ethnographic case studies, they offer models for conducting engaged research and illustrate the contradictions and challenges of doing so.
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:272 pages
- Publisher:Rutgers University Press
- Publication Date:04/10/2006
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- ISBN:9780813538921
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:272 pages
- Publisher:Rutgers University Press
- Publication Date:04/10/2006
- Category:
- ISBN:9780813538921