By working with underserved communities, anthropologists may
play a larger role in democratizing society. The growth of
disparities challenges anthropology to be used for social justice.
This engaged stance moves the application of anthropological
theory, methods, and practice toward action and activism. However,
this engagement also moves anthropologists away from traditional
roles of observation toward participatory roles that become
increasingly involved with those communities or social groupings
being studied. The chapters in this book suggest the roles
anthropologists are able to play to bring us closer to a public
anthropology characterized as engagement.
Sam Beck is Senior Lecturer in the College of Human Ecology and
Director of the Urban Semester Program of Cornell University. His
publications include "Ethnicity and Nationalism in Southeastern
Europe" (1981, ed with John W. Cole) and "Manny Almeida's Ringside
Lounge: The Cape Verdean Struggle for their Neighborhood"
(1992).
Carl A. Maida is Professor in the Institute of the Environment
and Sustainability at the University of California, Los Angeles.
His publications include "Sustainability and Communities of Place"
(2007), "Pathways through Crisis: Urban Risk and Public Culture"
(2008), "Children and Disasters" (1999), and "The Crisis of
Competence: Transitional Stress and the Displaced Worker"
(1990).
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