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Anthropology and public service : the UK experience / edited by Jeremy MacClancy.

Title
Anthropology and public service : the UK experience / edited by Jeremy MacClancy.
Publication
  • New York : Berghahn Books, 2017.
  • ©2017

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Additional Authors
MacClancy, Jeremy
Description
ix, 191 pages; 24 cm
Summary
These days an increasing number of social anthropologists do not find employment within academia. Rather, many find jobs with commercial organizations or in government, where they run research teams and create policy. These scholars provide a much-needed social dimension to government thinking and practice. Anthropology and Public Service shows how anthropologists can set new agendas, and revise old ones in the public sector. Written for scholars and students of various social sciences, these chapters include discussions of anthropologists' work with the Department for International Development, the Ministry of Defence, the UK Border Agency, and the Cabinet Office, and their contributions to prison governance.
Subject
  • Applied anthropology > Great Britain
  • Anthropologists > Employment > Great Britain
  • Political science > Anthropological aspects > Great Britain
  • Civil service > Great Britain
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction / Jeremy MacClancy -- On her majesty's service (and beyond) : anthropology's contribution to an unconventional career / Mils Hills -- You can't go home again : anthropology displacement and the work of government / Benjamin R. Smith -- Anthropology in the closet : contributions to community development and local government in the UK / Robert Gregory -- Parading through the peace process : anthropology, governance and crisis in Northern Ireland / Dominic Bryan and Neil Jarman -- From participant observer to observed participant : a prison governor's experience / Peter Bennett -- Identity and appropriation in applied health research / Rachael Gooberman-Hill.
ISBN
  • 9781785334023
  • 1785334026
  • 9781785334030 (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
^^2016053589
OCLC
957139389
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library