Media, Anthropology and Public Engagement

1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-78533-744-4
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 9, 236 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 351 g

Reihe: Studies in Public and Applied Anthropology

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pink, Sarah

Abram, Simone

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Abram, Simone
Simone Abram is Reader at the University of Durham and at Leeds Beckett University.

Pink, Sarah
Sarah Pink is a social anthropologist whose research includes a focus on visual methodologies and the relationship between applied and academic anthropology. Her books include Doing Visual Ethnography (2001), Home Truths (2004), Working Images (2004) and Applications of Anthropology (2005). She is Professor of Design and Emerging Technology at Monash University, Australia.

Sarah Pink is a social anthropologist whose research includes a focus on visual methodologies and the relationship between applied and academic anthropology. Her books include Doing Visual Ethnography (2001), Home Truths (2004), Working Images (2004) and Applications of Anthropology (2005). She is Professor of Design and Emerging Technology at Monash University, Australia.