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Title:

Engaged observer : anthropology, advocacy, and activism / edited by Victoria Sanford and Asale Angel-Ajani ; foreword by Philippe Bourgois.

Publisher:

Rutgers University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2006

Description:

xii, 254 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Anthropology--Philosophy.
Political anthropology
Anthropological ethics
Social conflict
Violence
Social advocacy
Social justice

Other Authors:

Sanford, Victoria
Angel-Ajani, Asale

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Excavations of the heart : reflections on truth, memory, and structures of understanding / Victoria Sanford -- Scholarship, advocacy, and the politics of engagement in Burma (Myanmar) / Monique Skidmore -- War and the nature of ultimate things : an essay on the study of postwar cultures / Roberta Culbertson -- Expert witness : notes toward revisiting the politics of listening / Asale Angel-Ajani -- Moral chronologies : generation and popular memory in a Palestinian refugee camp / John Collins -- "In our beds and our graves" : revealing the politics of pleasure and pain in the time of AIDS / Michael J. Bosia -- Portrait of a paramilitary ; putting a human face on the Colombian conflict / Aldo Civico -- Fratricidal war or ethnocidal strategy? : women's experience with political violence in Chiapas / R. A©Ưda Hern©Łndez Castillo -- Indigenous women and gendered resistance in the wake of acteal : a feminist activist research perspective / Shannon Speed -- It's a hard place to be a revolutionary woman : finding peace and justice in postwar El Salvador / Irina Carlota Silber -- Perils and promises of engaged anthropology : historical transitions and ethnographic dilemmas / Kay B. Warren -- Knowledge in the service of a vision : politically engaged anthropology / Dana-Ain Davis.

ISBN:

9780813538921
0813538920 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780813538914
0813538912 (hardcover : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)64289071

LCCN:

2006005654

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)