CiNii Books - Applying anthropology in the global village

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.

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Introduction, Jacqueline Copeland-Carson, Mary Odell Butler, Christina Wasson
Chapter 1 Global Localities and the Management of Infectious Disease, Mary Odell Butler
Chapter 2 Engendering Transport: Mapping Women and Men on the Move, Mari H. Clarke
Chapter 3 Housing Interests: Developing Community in a Globalizing City, Jacqueline Copeland-Carson
Chapter 4 Policy, Applied Feminist Anthropological Practice, and the Traffic in Women, Susan Dewey
Chapter 5 Global Climate Change from the Bottom Up, Shirley J. Fiske
Chapter 6 Aging and Transnational Immigration, Madelyn Iris
Chapter 7 Defining Family: Anthropological Contributions to Practice and Policy in Child Welfare, Susan Racine Passmore
Chapter 8 From Internationalism to Systemic Globalism in Health Leadership Training, Eve C. Pinsker
Chapter 9 Localizing the Global in Technology Design, Christina Wasson, Susan Squires
concl Conclusion, Jean J. Schensul, Mary Odell Butler

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