Engaged Anthropology
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In this article, I explore the role of anthropology and anthropologists in unsettling orthodoxies and provoking disquiet with taken for granted ways of thinking and doing. Set against the backdrop of the debates about engaged... more
Robert Borofsky and Antonio De Lauri
This paper explores the role of anthropological expertise in shaping the outcome of legal proceedings under conditions of cultural diversity. Taking the state-driven land-restitution process in post-apartheid South Africa as its point of... more
Italy has been the European country first struck and most heavily affected by COVID-19. Exploring the outbreak’s impact on the migration reception system in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna region, we show how anthropological tools have been... more
This paper explores the tensions and resonances between academic and non-academic approaches to scholarly knowledge through fieldwork conducted at an NGO that promotes the rights of lesbian, bisexual, and female-to-male transgender people... more
Tal como ocurre con otros casos de “colonialismo de poblamiento”, las narrativas fundacionales uruguayas afirman que tras la masacre de Salsipuedes de 1831 no quedaron indígenas en su territorio. Sin embargo, desde fines de los años... more
Antropologia "teorica" e antropologia applicata costituiscono due mo-dalità differenti di avvalersi delle metodologie e conoscenze disciplinari il cui rapporto, soprattutto in Europa e in Italia, è stato controverso e conflittuale. Il... more
The Katukina (Noke Koi) people have their territory within the state of Acre in Brazil. Their first contact with Western society was in the late 19th century, when migrants traveled through the Amazon basin in search of rubber trees.... more
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Resumen: Nina S. de Friedemann (1930-1998) fue una antropóloga pública. Ella ejerció la investigación comprometida, con miras a la justicia social para los grupos de base con quienes colaboró y estudió. Fue una investigadora que se... more
In times of the COVID-19 pandemic, in which the ethnographic exercise becomes, at times, prohibitive, other ways of acting are presented to anthropologists, whose job presupposes their insertion in networks of native relations. The... more
In the early 20th century, a colonial, and nowadays unpopular, vision of anthropology promoted the documentation of local knowledge for academic audiences. In the early 21st century, engaged anthropology is challenging this unidirectional... more
This paper attempts the historiographical analysis of the caste as it reflects in Sindhi progressive literature and rural politics. In an attempt to reframe the harmonious image of Sindhi society, the Progressives popularised certain... more
A public policy report that addresses a major element of the Trump administration's border and immigration plans.... more
Published by Wiley-Blackwell, Chichester, 2013
What is the place and the purpose of anthropology today? Are anthropologists able to react aptly to the current issues and problems in ever-changing societies and approach them in an accurate and scientifically rigorous way? In the last... more
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Brightman, Marc & Jerome Lewis (eds)
The anthropology of sustainability:
beyond development and progress
Baer, Hans A.
Democratic eco-socialism as a real utopia
Brightman, Marc & Jerome Lewis (eds)
The anthropology of sustainability:
beyond development and progress
Baer, Hans A.
Democratic eco-socialism as a real utopia
The work explores and discusses a key argument of the ‘ontological turn’ in anthropology: the call to go beyond cultural relativism, ‘taking seriously’ the ontological assumptions of the collectives under study. While this idea has been... more
A collection of essays solicited and curated by Neni Panourgia on the conceptualization, fieldwork, and writing of engaged anthropology. Το access the collection follow the link... more
Los Katukina (Noke Koi) tienen su territorio dentro del estado de Acre, en Brasil. Sus primeros contactos con la sociedad occidental se produjeron a finales del siglo XIX, cuando los migrantes viajaron por la cuenca del Amazonas en busca... more
This is a critical conclusion to the book After the Crisis: Anthropological Thought, Neoliberalism, and the Aftermath, edited by James G. Carrier. It not only reviews the book and its various chapters, but also puts forth ways that... more
The new liberal policies in Europe into a globalizing market vision, perceive water as a new sphere of winning benefit. Economic crisis into Balkan countries make them vulnerable to loose the control of their natural resources. Into this... more