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Applied Anthropology Margaret A. Gwynne

Applied Anthropology By Margaret A. Gwynne

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Applied Anthropology: A Career-Oriented Approach by Margaret A. Gwynne

This up-to-date, engaging, accessible applied anthropology textbook presents a thorough yet balanced introduction to the field while specifically addressing a concern of immediate and practical importance to college students-choosing a career field.

Applied Anthropology: A Career-Oriented Approach effectively shows how anthropological ideas and techniques can be used in the real world. One reviewer describes this new text as an unusually broad and very welcome breadth of perspective on applied anthropology...it will become the text of choice for both undergraduate and graduate courses in applied anthropology throughout the country. Gwynne covers all important topics thoroughly, clearly, and with illustrative details that bring core concepts alive for the reader.

Table of Contents

Each chapter begins with an Introduction and ends with a Conclusion.

PART I. FOUNDATIONS OF APPLIED CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY.

1. Introduction: Uses of Cultural Anthropology.

Basic Roles: Research, Policy Development, Intervention.

Academic and Applied Cultural Anthropology: A Comparison.

Careers in Applied Cultural Anthropology: Possibilities and Important Considerations.

Two Case Studies in Applied Cultural Anthropology.

2. Method and Theory in Applied Cultural Anthropology.

A Basic Strategy for Applied Research.

Underlying Principles of Applied Research.

Applied Cultural Anthropological Methods.

A Word About the New Ethnography.

Theory Development in the Course of Practice.

3. The History of Applied Cultural Anthropology.

Beginnings.

The Great Depression: 1930-1940.

World War II: 1940-1945.

Mid-Century: 1945-1960.

The 1960s: Rethinking Applied Anthropology.

Modern Applied Cultural Anthropology.

4. The Ethics of Applied Cultural Anthropology.

Is Applied Cultural Anthropology Morally Justified?

Ethical Relationships: Study or Beneficiary Groups, Employers, Colleagues.

Ethical Guidelines for Applied Anthropologists.

PART II. CAREERS IN DEVELOPMENT.

5. Development Anthropology.

The Anthropology-Development Connection.

International Development.

Development Theories and Principles.

Development Organizations.

Women in Development (WID).

The Downside of Development and Anthropology's Response.

6. Advocacy Anthropology.

Advocacy and Development Anthropology: A Comparison.

The Growth of Advocacy Anthropology.

Fundamental Principles: Basic Human Rights and Self-Determination.

Ethical Considerations.

Cultural Advocacy.

Community Advocacy.

PART III. SOCIAL SERVICE CAREERS.

7. Social Work.

Development of Social Work.

Contemporary Features of Social Work.

Cultural Anthropology and Social Work: The Culture Concept and Other Congruities.

Roles for Social Workers.

Corporate Social Work.

8. The Law and Law Enforcement.

Legal Systems and Other Systems of Social Control.

Preparation for Roles in Applied Legal Anthropology.

Applied Legal Anthropology and Law Enforcement.

Applied Legal Anthropology and Dispute Resolution.

Applied Legal Anthropology and the Correctional System.

PART IV. CAREERS IN BUSINESS AND MARKETING.

9. Business Anthropology.

The Recent Growth of Business Anthropology.

Applied Anthropologists' Roles in Businesses.

International Business.

The Ethics of Business Anthropology.

10. Social Marketing.

Social Marketing as Applied Cultural Anthropology.

Uses of Social Marketing.

Principles of Social Marketing.

Social Marketing Methods.

Social Marketing for Health.

PART V. CAREERS IN HEALTH CARE.

11. Applied Medical Anthropology.

Applying Medical Anthropology.

The Development of Applied Medical Anthropology.

Roles for Applied Medical Anthropologists.

The Ethics of Applied Medical Anthropology.

Critically Applied Medical Anthropology.

12. International Health.

Global Health Problems.

Comparing Applied Medical Anthropology and International Health.

Fundamental Concepts in International Health.

Roles for Cultural Anthropologists in International Health.

PART VI. NEXT STEPS

13. Finding a Job.

Assessing Your Anthropological Potential.

Improving Your Anthropological Skills.

Selling Your Anthropological Skills.

Appendix 1. Review: Anthropology's Four Traditional Fields.
Appendix 2. Review: Theory and Method in Cultural Anthropology.
Appendix 3. Careers in Applied Archaeology.
Appendix 4. Careers in Applied Physical Anthropology.

Additional information

CIN0205358667G
9780205358663
0205358667
Applied Anthropology: A Career-Oriented Approach by Margaret A. Gwynne
Used - Good
Paperback
Pearson Education (US)
20021029
416
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