Engaged Anthropology: Diversity and Dilemmas

摘要: As a discipline, anthropology has increased its public visibility in recent years with growing focus on engagement. Although the call for engagement elicited responses all subfields and around world, this special issue focuses engaged dilemmas it raises U.S. cultural practicing anthropology. Within field, authors distinguish number of forms engagement: (1) sharing support, (2) teaching education, (3) social critique, (4) collaboration, (5) advocacy, (6) activism. They show that takes place during fieldwork; through applied practice; institutions such as Cultural Survival, Institute Community Research, Hispanic Health Council; individual activists work context war, terrorism, environmental injustice, human rights, violence. A close examination history United States also reveals an enduring set dilemmas, many which persist contempora...