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Published April 2011 Adventures in Aidland
The Anthropology of Professionals in International Development
Mosse, D. (ed)
Subjects: Applied Anthropology Development Studies
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Published May 2003
Aging in Today's World
Conversations between an Anthropologist and a Physician
Shield, R. R. & Aronson, S. M.
Subjects: Applied Anthropology Sociology Medical Anthropology
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Published September 2011
The Allure of Capitalism
An Ethnography of Management and the Global Economy in Crisis
Røyrvik, E. A.
Subjects: Applied Anthropology Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published October 2000
Anthropologists in a Wider World
Essays on Field Research
Dresch, P., James, W. & Parkin, D.
Subjects: Theory and Methodology Applied Anthropology
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Published August 2004
Anthropology and Consultancy
Issues and Debates
Stewart, P. & Strathern, A. (eds)
Subject: Applied Anthropology
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Published February 2017
Anthropology and Public Service
The UK Experience
MacClancy, J. (ed)
Many anthropologists are now finding jobs in commercial organizations or in government. This volume shows how anthropologists can set new agendas, and revise old ones in the public sector. Included are discussions of anthropologists’ work with the Department for International Development, the Ministry of Defence, the UK Border Agency, and their contributions to prison governance.
Subject: Applied Anthropology
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Published December 2005
Applications of Anthropology
Professional Anthropology in the Twenty-first Century
Pink, S. (ed)
Subjects: Applied Anthropology Medical Anthropology
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Published July 2019
Civil–Military Entanglements
Anthropological Perspectives
Sørensen, B. R. & Ben-Ari, E. (eds)
Military-civilian encounters are multiple and diverse in our times. This volume traces out the ripples, reverberations and resonations of civil-military entanglements which allow for an understanding of the roles war, violence and the military play in shaping contemporary societies and the everyday life of its citizens.
Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Applied Anthropology
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Published October 2021
Collaborative Happiness
Building the Good Life in Urban Cohousing Communities
Kingfisher, C.
Collaborative Happiness looks at two urban cohousing communities: Kankanmori, in Tokyo; and Quayside Village, in Vancouver. In expanding beyond mainstream approaches to happiness focused exclusively on the individual, Quayside Village and Kankanmori provide an alternative model for how to understand and practice the good life in an increasingly urbanized world marked by crisis of both social and environmental sustainability.
Subjects: Applied Anthropology Urban Studies Sociology
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Published May 2012
Collaborators Collaborating
Counterparts in Anthropological Knowledge and International Research Relations
Konrad, M. (ed)
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Applied Anthropology
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Published September 2016
Contextualizing Disaster
Button, G. V. & Schuller, M. (eds)
Contextualizing Disaster argues that, while disasters are increasingly represented by the media as unique, exceptional, newsworthy events, it is a mistake to think of disasters as isolated or discrete occurrences.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General) Applied Anthropology
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Published July 2004
Corporate Scandal
Global Corporatism against Society
Gledhill, J. (ed)
Subjects: Theory and Methodology Applied Anthropology
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Published May 2023
Corporate Social Responsibility and the Paradoxes of State Capitalism
Ethnographies of Norwegian Energy and Extraction Businesses Abroad
Knudsen, S. (ed)
Through a series of case studies in diverse regions of the world, this book explores how transnational Norwegian energy and extractive industries handle corporate social responsibility (CSR) when operating abroad.
Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Environmental Studies (General) Applied Anthropology
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Published February 2004
Current Policies and Practices in European Social Anthropology Education
Dracklé, D. and Edgar, I. R. (eds)
Subjects: Applied Anthropology Educational Studies
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Published October 2019
Disaster Upon Disaster
Exploring the Gap Between Knowledge, Policy and Practice
Hoffman, S. M. & Barrios, R. E. (eds)
A consistent problem that confronts disaster reduction is the disjunction between academic and expert knowledge and policies and practices of agencies mandated to deal with the concern. Disaster Upon Disaster illuminates the numerous disjunctions between the suppositions, realities, agendas, and executions in the field and advances solutions and the matter of outcomes.
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General) Applied Anthropology
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Published July 2013
Ethics in the Field
Contemporary Challenges
MacClancy, J. & Fuentes, A. (eds)
Subjects: Theory and Methodology Applied Anthropology
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Published June 2017
The Ethics of Knowledge Creation
Transactions, Relations, and Persons
Josephides, L. & Grønseth, A. S. (eds)
This volume focuses on how knowledge is relationally created, how local knowledge can be transmuted into ‘universal knowledge’, and how transactions and consumption of knowledge monitors knowledge. The Ethics of Knowledge Creation examines how these transactions are then situated according to broader contradictions or synergies between ethical, epistemological, and political concerns.
Subjects: Applied Anthropology Theory and Methodology
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Published July 2009
Ethnography and the Corporate Encounter
Reflections on Research in and of Corporations
Cefkin, M. (ed)
Subject: Applied Anthropology
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Published July 2004
Expert Knowledge
First World Peoples, Consultancy, and Anthropology
Morris, B. & Bastin, R. (eds)
Subject: Applied Anthropology
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Published May 2007
Fire in the Dark
Telling Gypsiness in North East England
Buckler, S.
Subjects: Applied Anthropology Sociology Anthropology (General)
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Published September 2010
Flexible Firm
The Design of Culture at Bang & Olufsen
Krause-Jensen, J.
Subject: Applied Anthropology
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Published July 2019
From Bullies to Officers and Gentlemen
How Notions of Professionalism and Civility Transformed the Ghana Armed Forces
Agyekum, H. A.
Based on unprecedented access to the Ghanaian military barracks and inspired by the recent resurgence of coups in West Africa, the book assesses why and how the Ghana Armed Forces were transformed from an organisation that actively orchestrated coups into an institution that accepts the authority of the democratically elected civilian government.
Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Applied Anthropology
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Published June 2007
Global Ambitions and Local Identities
An Israeli-American High-Tech Merger
Ailon, G.
This study of a successful Israeli high-tech company's merger with an American competitor offers an important contribution to a better understanding of the social and personal ramifications of mergers. Based upon in-depth fieldwork, the book explores the reality behind the statistics, balance sheets, and managerial prescriptions that are the focus of most studies of international mergers and acquisitions.
Subject: Applied Anthropology
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Published September 2020
Going Forward by Looking Back
Archaeological Perspectives on Socio-Ecological Crisis, Response, and Collapse
Riede, F. & Sheets, P. (eds)
Catastrophes are on the rise due to climate change, as is their toll in terms of lives and livelihoods as world populations rise and people locate into hazardous places. This book catalogues a wide and diverse range of case studies of such disasters and human responses. This heritage of past disasters serves as inspiration for building culturally sensitive adaptions to present and future calamities, to mitigate their impacts, and facilitate recoveries.
Subjects: Archaeology Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General) Applied Anthropology
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Published March 2022
Indigenous Resurgence
Decolonialization and Movements for Environmental Justice
Dhillon, J.
Indigenous peoples around the world are standing up and speaking out against global capitalism to protect the land, water, and air. By placing Indigenous politics, histories, and ontologies at the center of our social movements for environmental justice, Indigenous Resurgence positions environmental justice within historical, social, political, and economic contexts.
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Applied Anthropology Colonial History
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Published November 2020
Invisible Faces and Hidden Stories
Narratives of Vulnerable Populations and Their Caregivers
Obeng, C. S. & Obeng, S. G. (eds)
Dealing with narratives of vulnerable populations, this book looks at how they deal with dimensions of their social life, especially in regards to health. It reflects the socio-political ecologies like public hostility and stereotyping, neglect of their unique health needs, their courage to overcome adversity, and the love of family and healthcare providers in mitigating their problems.
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Applied Anthropology Sociology
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Published July 2022
Making Things Happen
Community Participation and Disaster Reconstruction in Pakistan
Murphy Thomas, J.
Making Things Happen is about the sociocultural side of post-disaster infrastructure reconstruction, drawing on one project, the Pakistan Earthquake Reconstruction and Recovery Project (PERRP). As disasters are increasing in number and intensity so too will be the need for reconstruction, for which PERRP has lessons to offer.
Subjects: Applied Anthropology Development Studies
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Published January 2020
Management and Morality
An Ethnographic Exploration of Management Consultancy Seminars
Henningsen, E.
Drawing on extended ethnographic studies of management consultancies in the Oslo region of Norway, this book seeks to find a richer understanding of their role in contemporary work life and the attraction their practices exert on people. The author shows that management consultancy is an arena of meaning that should be analysed as a ‘cultural space’.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Applied Anthropology
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Published October 2015
Media, Anthropology and Public Engagement
Pink, S. & Abram, S. (eds)
Contemporary anthropologists’ engagement with social and digital media simultaneously offers opportunities to disseminate work in new ways, while challenging scholars to move into unfamiliar collaborative domains and expose their research to new forms of scrutiny. This volume’s contributors question whether, through these new practices, a fresh public anthropology is emerging.
Subjects: Applied Anthropology Media Studies
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Published June 2021
The Moral Work of Anthropology
Ethnographic Studies of Anthropologists at Work
Mogensen, H. & Hansen, B. G. (eds)
Looking at anthropologists at work, this book investigates what kind of morality they perform in their occupations and the impact of this morality. The book includes ethnographic studies of anthropologists at work in four professional arenas: health care, business, management and interdisciplinary research.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Applied Anthropology
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Published September 2020
On Mediation
Historical, Legal, Anthropological and International Perspectives
Härter, K., Hillemanns, C. & Schlee, G. (eds)
Exploring mediation and related practices of conflict regulation, this book takes an interdisciplinary approach that includes historical, legal, anthropological and international perspectives. The book observes historical and current relations between mediation and the criminal justice system and provides anthropological perspectives and case studies to explore mediation and arbitration in international arenas.
Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Applied Anthropology
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Published April 2011
Policy Worlds
Anthropology and the Analysis of Contemporary Power
Shore, C., Wright S., & Però, D.
Subjects: Theory and Methodology Applied Anthropology Sociology
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Published July 2024
The Potential for Anthropology and Urban Community Engagement
Lessons Learned from Twenty-Five Years in Milwaukee
Lackey, J. F. & Petrie, R.
Going beyond traditional relationships between practicing anthropologists and urban communities, this develops the foundations to extend the current scope of applied anthropology to grassroots research and lasting community programs using two partnering Milwaukee organizations as examples.
Subjects: Applied Anthropology Urban Studies
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Published August 2007
Professional Identities
Policy and Practice in Business and Bureaucracy
Ardener, S. & Moore, F. (eds)
Subjects: Applied Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published May 2022
Profiles of Anthropological Praxis
An International Casebook
Redding, T. M. & Cheney, C. C. (eds)
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.
Subjects: Applied Anthropology Theory and Methodology
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Published July 2015
Public Anthropology in a Borderless World
Beck, S. & Maida, C. A. (eds)
Today anthropologists carry out the discipline’s original purpose of understanding and advocating for cultural integrity of societies across the globe. Public anthropology, likewise, is an important genre of anthropology with the goal of actively engaging with people to make changes to improve the modern human condition.
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Published March 2019
Raccomandazione
Clientelism and Connections in Italy
Zinn, D. L.
Based on ethnographic research in southern Italy, this book examines the concept of raccomandazione, the omnipresent social practice of using connections to get things done. Viewing the practice from both emic and etic perspectives, it builds on and extends past scholarship to consider the nature of patronage in a contemporary society and its relationship to corruption.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Applied Anthropology
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Published May 2002
A Sealed and Secret Kinship
The Culture of Policies and Practices in American Adoption
Modell, J.
Subjects: Applied Anthropology Medical Anthropology Sociology
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Published January 2007
Skilled Visions
Between Apprenticeship and Standards
Grasseni, C. (ed)
Subject: Applied Anthropology
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Published April 2017
Theoretical Scholarship and Applied Practice
Pink, S., Fors, V., & O'Dell, T. (eds)
Academics across the globe are being urged by universities and research councils to do research that impacts the world beyond academia. The contributions to this collection advance our understanding of the ethics, values, opportunities and challenges that emerge in making of engaged and interdisciplinary scholarship.
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Published November 2015
Time and the Field
Dalsgaard, S. & Nielsen, M. (eds)
Despite numerous conceptual facelifts, definitions and demarcations of ‘the field’ have remained fundamentally anchored in tropes of spatiality with the association between field and fieldworker characterized by distances in space. This collection serves a fresh invitation to a temporally oriented ethnography by radically rethinking the notion of the field in terms of time rather than space.
Subjects: Applied Anthropology Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General) Sociology
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Published June 2020
Time Work
Studies of Temporal Agency
Flaherty, M. G., Meinert, L., & Dalsgård, A. L. (eds)
Examining how people alter or customize various dimensions of their temporal experience, this volume discovers how we resist external sources of temporal constraint or structure. These ethnographic studies are international in scope and look at many different countries and continents.
Subjects: Applied Anthropology Sociology Anthropology (General)
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Published July 2013
Toward Engaged Anthropology
Beck, S. & Maida, C. A. (ed)
Subject: Applied Anthropology
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Unraveling Management
Its Institutions, Practices and Beliefs
Carrier, J. G. (ed)
Management is everywhere. Schools teach it and professional organisations counsel about it. Books and articles are written for managers and about them. Management is usually understood in terms of styles of management, management policies and successful management but few tend to think about management in an abstract sense. This book addresses this gap.
Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Applied Anthropology Sociology
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Published August 2014
Up, Down, and Sideways
Anthropologists Trace the Pathways of Power
Stryker, R. & González, R. (eds)
Up, Down, and Sidewaysis a collection of essays by ten anthropologists who use a “vertical slice” approach to critically analyze the relationship between undemocratic and sometimes authoritarian uses and abuses of power today and the survival of the human species. It is atimely examination of modern institutions ranging from the nuclear family to transnational corporations within such countries as Russia, Mexico, South Korea, Peru, Indonesia, Guatemala, and the U.S.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Applied Anthropology
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Published April 2012
Urban Residence
Housing and Social Transformations in Globalizing Ecuador
Klaufus, C.
Subjects: Urban Studies Applied Anthropology Sociology
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Published June 2020
Urban Sustainability in the Arctic
Measuring Progress in Circumpolar Cities
Orttung, R. W.
Urban Sustainability in the Arctic advances our understanding of cities in the far north by applying elements of the international standard for urban sustainability (ISO 37120) to numerous Arctic cities. In delivering rich material about northern cities in Alaska, Canada, and Russia, the book examines how well the ISO 37120 measures sustainability and how well it applies in northern conditions.
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Applied Anthropology Urban Studies
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Published November 2009
Virtualism, Governance and Practice
Vision and Execution in Environmental Conservation
Carrier, J. C. & West, P. (eds)
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies Anthropology (General) Applied Anthropology
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Published March 2011
Vision and Change in Institutional Entrepreneurship
The Transformation from Science to Commercialization
Drori, I. & Landau, D.
Subject: Applied Anthropology
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Published December 2007
Visual Interventions
Applied Visual Anthropology
Pink, S. (ed.)
Subjects: Applied Anthropology Media Studies
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Published January 2024
Voices of Long-Term Care Workers
Elder Care in the Time of COVID-19 and Beyond
Freidus, A. & Shenk, D.
Based on extensive narrative interviews, this collection of essays reflects on the participants’ individual experiences and represents the voices of staff and caregivers working in long-term residential care communities, in-home and community-based programs, as well as regional aging service providers and advocates.
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Sociology Applied Anthropology
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Published February 2001
War on the Homefront
An Examination of Wife Abuse
Haley, S. & Braun-Haley, E.
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Applied Anthropology
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