Engaged Observer

Anthropology, Advocacy, and Activism

Häftad, Engelska, 2006

Av Asale Angel-Ajani, Victoria Sanford, Phillippe Bourgois, Irina Carlota Silber, Rosalva Aida Hernandez Castillo, Dr. Monique Skidmore, Shannon Speed, Dana-Ain Davis, Michael Bosia, Roberta Culbertson, John Collins, Aldo Civico, Kay Warren, Skidmore, Victoria Sanford, Asale Angel-Ajani

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2006-10-04
Mått152 x 229 x 18 mm
Vikt399 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor272
FörlagRutgers University Press
MedarbetareBourgois,Phillippe
ISBN9780813538921

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AcknowledgmentsForewordIntroductionPart One. The Politics of Witnessing in War and Pain1. Excavations of the Heart: Reflections on Truth, Memory, and Structures of Understanding2. Scholarship, Advocacy, and the Politics of Engagement in Burma (Myanmar)3. War and the Nature of Ultimate Things: An Essay on the Study of Postwar Cultures4. Expert Witness: Notes toward Revisiting the Politics of ListeningPart Two. Lessons from Agents of Change5. Moral Chronologies: Generation and Popular Memory in a Palestinian Refugee Camp6. "In Our Beds and Our Graves": Revealing the Politics of Pleasure and Pain in the Time of AIDS7. Portrait of a Paramilitary: Putting a Human Face on the Colombian ConflictPart Three. Trauma, Violence, and Women's Resistance in Everyday Life8. Fratricidal War or Ethnocidal Strategy? Women's Experience with Political Violence in Chiapas9. Indigenous Women and Gendered Resistance in the Wake of Acteal: A Feminist Activist Research Perspective10. It's a Hard Place to be a Revolutionary Woman: Finding Peace and Justice in Postwar El SalvadorPart Four. The Engaged Observer, Inside and Outside the Academy11. Perils and Promises of Engaged Anthropology: Historical Transitions and Ethnographic Dilemmas12. Knowledge in the Service of a Vision: Politically Engaged AnthropologyNotes on ContributorsIndex