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Diagnosing America : anthropology and public engagement
- Title
- Diagnosing America : anthropology and public engagement / edited by Shepard Forman.
- Publication
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©1994.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Forman, Shepard, 1938-
- Description
- xii, 314 pages; 24 cm.
- Summary
- For years, anthropology has brought the lives and beliefs of other peoples, often "exotic" tribes, to academic and popular audiences in the West. In Diagnosing America: Anthropology and Public Engagement, standard anthropological methods are brought to bear on social, economic, and political problems in the contemporary United States. The book is a clarion call to anthropologists to help address these critical problems that tear at the fabric of our society. Individual essays in the volume investigate topics ranging from contested values, community politics, middle-class economics, and workplace culture to the psychophysiological effects of stress on African Americans and the coping mechanisms of Mexican Americans along the border. Debunking the notion of anthropology as a "value-free" science, the authors argue forcefully for an anthropology expressly committed to the values of cultural pluralism and democratic participation. The book thus distinguishes an "engaged anthropology" in which the analyst is both researcher and citizen and suggests a powerful public policy role for the anthropologist as well as the public intellectual.
- Series Statement
- Linking levels of analysis
- Uniform Title
- Linking levels of analysis.
- Subject
- Ethnology > United States
- Ethnology > United States > Methodology
- Social prediction > United States
- 73.03 methods and techniques of ethnology
- Economic history
- Ethnology
- Ethnology > Methodology
- Politics and government
- Social conditions
- Social prediction
- Soziale Situation
- Ethnologie
- Methode
- Aufsatzsammlung
- Culturele antropologie
- Sociale problemen
- Waarden
- Methodologie
- Ethnologues > États-Unis
- Ethnologie > États-Unis
- Ethnologie > États-Unis > Méthodologie
- Ethnologie > Etats-Unis
- United States > Economic conditions
- United States > Social conditions
- United States > Politics and government
- United States
- États-Unis > Conditions sociales
- États-Unis > Conditions économiques
- États-Unis > Politique et gouvernement
- Etats-Unis > Conditions sociales > 1980- ..
- USA
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- American cultural values : disorders and challenges / James L. Peacock -- Democratic participation : a view from anthropology / Carol MacLennan -- The heartbeat of productivity : hierarchy and transformation in American work relations / Frank A. Dubinskas -- Deindustrialization, poverty, and downward mobility : toward an anthropology of economic disorder / Katherine S. Newman -- Psychophysiological stress and disorders of industrial society : a critical theoretical formulation for biocultural research / Michael L. Blakey -- Plural strategies of survival and cultural formation in U.S.-Mexican households in a region of dynamic transformation : the U.S.-Mexico borderlands / Carlos G. Vélez-Ibanez -- Disorders of our own : a conclusion / Roy A. Rappaport -- A statement to the profession : the American Anthropological Association, Panel on Disorders of Industrial Societies / Michael L. Blakey [and others].
- ISBN
- 0472104101
- 9780472104109
- 0472083368
- 9780472083367
- LCCN
- 94017692
- OCLC
- ocm30594046
- 30594046
- SCSB-2034986
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library