The realities of the globalized world have revolutionized traditional concepts of culture, community, and identity-so how do applied social scientists use complicated, fluid new ideas such as translocality and ethnoscape to solve pressing human problems? In this book, leading scholar/practitioners survey the development of different subfields over at least two decades, then offer concrete case studies to show how they have incorporated and refined new concepts and methods. After an introduction synthesizing anthropological practice, key theoretical concepts, and ethnographic methods, chapters examine the arenas of public health, community development, finance, technology, transportation, gender, environment, immigration, aging, and child welfare. An innovative guide to joining dynamic theoretical concepts with on-the-ground problem solving, this book will be of interest to practitioners from a wide range of disciplines who work on social change, as well as an excellent addition to graduate and undergraduate courses.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Left Coast Press Inc
ISBN-13
9781611320862
eBay Product ID (ePID)
111793504
Product Key Features
Author
Mary Odell Butler, Christina Wasson, Jacqueline Copeland-Carson
Publication Name
Applying Anthropology in the Global Village
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Anthropology
Publication Year
2012
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
326 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
229mm
Item Width
152mm
Item Weight
522g
Additional Product Features
Editor
Mary Odell Butler, Christina Wasson, Jacqueline Copeland-Carson