Applying anthropology in the global village / Editors ; Christina Wasson ; Mary Odell Butler ; and Jacqueline Copeland-Carson.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Walnut Creek, CA : Left Coast Press, Inc., 2011Copyright date: Walnut Creek, CA : Left Coast Press, Inc., ©2012Description: 326 pages : black and white tables and figures ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781611320855
  • 9781611320862
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306 23
LOC classification:
  • GN 397.5 .A674 2011
Contents:
Introduction. Global-local connections: the view from applied anthropology / Jacqueline Copeland-Carson, Mary Odell Butler, and Christina Wasson --
1. Global localities and the management of infectious disease / Mary Odell Butler -- 2. Engendering transport: mapping women and men on the move / Mari H. Clarke -- 3. Housing interests: developing community in a globalizing city / Jacqueline Copeland-Carson -- 4. Policy, applied feminist anthropological practice, and the traffic in women / Susan Dewey -- 5. Global climate change from the bottom up / Shirley J. Fiske -- 6. Aging and transnational immigration / Madelyn Iris -- 7. Defining family: anthropological contributions to practice and policy in child welfare / Susan Racine Passmore -- 8. From internationalism to systemic globalism in health leadership training / Eve C. Pinsker -- 9. Localizing the global in technology design / Christina Wasson and Susan Squires --
Conclusion. Toward a practice-based enthnography in the global village / Jean J. Schensul and Mary Odell Butler.
Summary: "The realities of the globalized world have revolutionized traditional concepts of culture, community, and identity―so how do applied social scientists use complicated, fluid new ideas such as translocality and ethnoscape to solve pressing human problems? In this book, leading scholar/practitioners survey the development of different subfields over at least two decades, then offer concrete case studies to show how they have incorporated and refined new concepts and methods. After an introduction synthesizing anthropological practice, key theoretical concepts, and ethnographic methods, chapters examine the arenas of public health, community development, finance, technology, transportation, gender, environment, immigration, aging, and child welfare. An innovative guide to joining dynamic theoretical concepts with on-the-ground problem solving, this book will be of interest to practitioners from a wide range of disciplines who work on social change, as well as an excellent addition to graduate and undergraduate courses." -- from online
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The tables and figures included in this text discuss and evaluate community development, social theory, identity formation, and utilize anthropological evaulations to understand global development and behavior., including but not limited to how people move and act in a multicultural and global environment.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction. Global-local connections: the view from applied anthropology / Jacqueline Copeland-Carson, Mary Odell Butler, and Christina Wasson --

1. Global localities and the management of infectious disease / Mary Odell Butler -- 2. Engendering transport: mapping women and men on the move / Mari H. Clarke -- 3. Housing interests: developing community in a globalizing city / Jacqueline Copeland-Carson -- 4. Policy, applied feminist anthropological practice, and the traffic in women / Susan Dewey -- 5. Global climate change from the bottom up / Shirley J. Fiske -- 6. Aging and transnational immigration / Madelyn Iris -- 7. Defining family: anthropological contributions to practice and policy in child welfare / Susan Racine Passmore -- 8. From internationalism to systemic globalism in health leadership training / Eve C. Pinsker -- 9. Localizing the global in technology design / Christina Wasson and Susan Squires --

Conclusion. Toward a practice-based enthnography in the global village / Jean J. Schensul and Mary Odell Butler.

"The realities of the globalized world have revolutionized traditional concepts of culture, community, and identity―so how do applied social scientists use complicated, fluid new ideas such as translocality and ethnoscape to solve pressing human problems? In this book, leading scholar/practitioners survey the development of different subfields over at least two decades, then offer concrete case studies to show how they have incorporated and refined new concepts and methods. After an introduction synthesizing anthropological practice, key theoretical concepts, and ethnographic methods, chapters examine the arenas of public health, community development, finance, technology, transportation, gender, environment, immigration, aging, and child welfare. An innovative guide to joining dynamic theoretical concepts with on-the-ground problem solving, this book will be of interest to practitioners from a wide range of disciplines who work on social change, as well as an excellent addition to graduate and undergraduate courses." -- from online

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