Anthropology and consultancy : issues and debates

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Title:

Anthropology and consultancy : issues and debates

Author:

Stewart, Pamela J.

ISBN:

9781571815521

Publication Information:

New York : Berghahn Books, 2005.

Physical Description:

xiv, 146 p. ; 23 cm.

Series:

Studies in applied anthropology

Series Title:

Studies in applied anthropology

General Note:

The papers collected for this book are a special issue of "Social Analysis".

Contents:

Preface / Andrew Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart -- Introduction : anthropology and consultancy - ethnographic dilemmas and opportunities / Andrew Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart -- 1. On knowing the Baining and other minor ethnic groups of East New Britain / Marta A. Rohatynskyj -- 2. From anthropologist to government officer and back again / Richard Scaglion -- 3. Environmental non-governmental organizations and the nature of ethnographic inquiry / Paige West -- 4. The politics of accountability : an institutional analysis of the conservation movement in Papua New Guinea / John Richard Wagner -- 5. Where anthropologists fear to tread : notes and queries on anthropology and consultancy, inspired by a fieldwork experience / Lorenzo Brutti -- 6. Taking care of culture : consultancy, anthropology, and gender issues / Martha Macintyre.

Abstract:

"More and more, anthropologists are recruited as consultants by government agencies, corporations, or more generally as observers of development processes in their field areas. Although these roles can be very gratifying, they can create ambiguous situations for the anthropologists who find that new pressures and responsibilities are placed upon them for which their training did not prepare them. This volume explores some of the problems, opportunities, issues, debates, and dilemmas surrounding these roles.

The geographic focus of the studies is Papua New Guinea, but the topic and its importance apply widely throughout the world, for example, Africa, South America, Australia, and the Pacific in general, as well as in relation to indigenous groups in Canada and elsewhere. All the authors have first-hand experience and address these new pressures and responsibilities of anthropological research.

The contributions to this volume are written in a way that combines scholarship with a style accessible to general readers."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject Term:

Applied anthropology.

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Social analysis (Adelaide, S. Aust.). Special number.

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More and more, anthropologists are recruited as consultants by government departments, companies or as observers of development processes in their field areas generally. Although these roles can be very gratifying, they can create ambiguous situations for the anthropologists who find that new pressures and responsibilities are placed upon them for which their training did not prepare them. This volume explores some of the problems, opportunities, issues, debates, and dilemmas surrounding these roles. The geographic focus of the studies is Papua New Guinea, but the topic and its importance apply widely through the world, for example, Africa, South America, Australia, and the Pacific in general, as well as in relation to indigenous groups in Canada and elsewhere. All the authors have first-hand experience and they address these new pressures and responsibilities of anthropological research. The book's chapters are written in a way that combines scholarship with a style accessible to general readers.