Public anthropology in a borderless world /

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Imprint:New York : Berghahn Books, 2015.
Description:1 online resource.
Language:English
Series:Studies in public and applied anthropology ; volume 8
Studies in public and applied anthropology ; volume 8.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12588450
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Other authors / contributors:Beck, Sam, editor.
Maida, Carl A., editor.
ISBN:9781782387312
1782387315
9781782387305
1782387307
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary:Anthropologists have acted as experts and educators on the nature and ways of life of people worldwide, working to understand the human condition in broad comparative perspective. As a discipline, anthropology has often advocated - and even defended - the cultural integrity, authenticity, and autonomy of societies across the globe. Public anthropology today carries out the discipline's original purpose, grounding theories in lived experience and placing empirical knowledge in deeper historical and comparative frameworks. This is a vitally important kind of anthropology that has the goal of im.
Other form:Print version: Public anthropology in a borderless world 9781782387305