Full Description
Contemporary anthropology is done in a world where social and digital media are playing an increasingly significant role, where anthropological and arts practices are often intertwined in museum and public intervention contexts, and where anthropologists are encouraged to engage with mass media. Because anthropologists are often expected and inspired to ensure their work engages with public issues, these opportunities to disseminate work in new ways and to new publics simultaneously create challenges as anthropologists move their practice into unfamiliar collaborative domains and expose their research to new forms of scrutiny. In this volume, contributors question whether a fresh public anthropology is emerging through these new practices.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Mediating Publics and Anthropology: An Introduction
Simone Abram and Sarah Pink
PART I: ANTHROPOLOGY IN THE PUBLIC MEDIA SPHERE
Chapter 1. Doing Anthropology in Public: Examples from the Basque Country
Margaret Bullen
Chapter 2. The Perils of Public Anthropology? Quiescent Anthropology in Neo-Nationalist Scandinavia
Peter Hervik
Chapter 3. For a Creative Anthropological Image-Making: Reflections on Aesthetics, Relationality, Spectatorship and Knowledge in the Context of Visual Ethnographic Work in New Delhi, India
Paolo Favero
Chapter 4. A Language For Re-Generation: Boundary Crossing and Re-Formation at the Intersection of Media Ethnography and Theater
Debra Spitulnik Vidali
Chapter 5. Social Movements and Video Indígena in Latin America: Key Challenges for 'Anthropologies Otherwise'
Juan Francisco Salazar
PART II: PUBLIC ANTHROPOLOGY AND SOCIAL MEDIA
Chapter 6. Anthropology by the Wire
Matthew Durington and Samuel Gerald Collins
Chapter 7. Public Anthropology in Times of Media Hybridity and Global Upheaval
John Postill
Chapter 8. Anthropological Publics and their Onlookers: The Dynamics of Multiple Audiences in the Blog SavageMinds.Org
Alex Golub and Kerim Friedman
Chapter 9. The Open Anthropology Cooperative: Towards an Online Public Anthropology
Francine Barone and Keith Hart
Notes on Contributors
