Mutuality : anthropology's changing terms of engagement

Author(s)

• Sanjek, Roger

Bibliographic Information

Mutuality : anthropology's changing terms of engagement

edited by Roger Sanjek

University of Pennsylvania Press, c2015

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [321]-360) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Why do people do social-cultural anthropology? Beyond professional career motivations, what values underpin anthropologists' commitments to lengthy training, fieldwork, writing, and publication? Mutuality explores the values that anthropologists bring from their wider social worlds, including the value placed on relationships with the people they study, work with, write about and for, and communicate with more broadly. In this volume, seventeen distinguished anthropologists draw on personal and professional histories to describe avenues to mutuality through collaborative fieldwork, community-based projects and consultations, advocacy, and museum exhibits, including the American Anthropological Association's largest public outreach ever-the RACE: Are We So Different? project. Looking critically at obstacles to reciprocally beneficial engagement, the contributors trace the discipline's past and current relations with Native Americans, indigenous peoples exhibited in early twentieth-century world's fairs, and racialized populations. The chapters range widely-across the Punjabi craft caste, Filipino Igorot, and Somali Bantu global diasporas; to the Darfur crisis and conciliation efforts in Sudan and Qatar; to applied work in Panama, Micronesia, China, and Peru. In the United States, contributors discuss their work as academic, practicing, and public anthropologists in such diverse contexts as Alaskan Yup'ik communities, multiethnic New Mexico, San Francisco's Japan Town, Oakland's Intertribal Friendship House, Southern California's produce markets, a children's ward in a Los Angeles hospital, a New England nursing home, and Washington D.C.'s National Mall. Deeply personal as well as professionally astute, Mutuality sheds new light on the issues closest to the present and future of contemporary anthropology. Contributors: Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf, Robert R. Alvarez, Garrick Bailey, Catherine Besteman, Parminder Bhachu, Ann Fienup-Riordan, Zibin Guo, Lane Ryo Hirabayashi, Lanita Jacobs, Susan Lobo, Yolanda T. Moses, Sylvia Rodriguez, Roger Sanjek, Renee R. Shield, Alaka Wali, Deana L. Weibel, Brett Williams.

Table of Contents

Introduction. Deep Grooves: Anthropology and Mutuality -Roger Sanjek PART I. ORIENTATIONS Chapter 1. Anthropology and the American Indian -Garrick Bailey Chapter 2. The American Anthropological Association RACE: Are We So Different? Project -Yolanda T. Moses Chapter 3. Mutuality and the Field at Home -Sylvia Rodriguez Chapter 4. "If You Want to Go Fast, Go Alone. If You Want to Go Far, Go Together": Yup'ik Elders Working Together with One Mind -Ann Fienup-Riordan PART II. ROOTS Chapter 5. The Invisibility of Diasporic Capital and Multiply Migrant Creativity -Parminder Bhachu Chapter 6. A Savage at the Wedding and the Skeletons in My Closet: My Great-Grandfather, "Igorotte Villages," and the Ethnological Expositions of the 1900s -Deana L. Weibel Chapter 7. Thinking About and Experiencing Mutuality: Notes on a Son's Formation -Lane Ryo Hirabayashi Chapter 8. Cartographies of Mutuality: Lessons from Darfur -Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf PART III. JOURNEYS Chapter 9. On the Fault Lines of the Discipline: Personal Practice and the Canon -Robert R. Alvarez Chapter 10. Listening with Passion: A Journey Through Engagement and Exchange -Alaka Wali Chapter 11. Why? And How? An Essay on Doing Anthropology and Life -Susan Lobo Chapter 12. Embedded in Time, Work, Family, and Age: A Reverie About Mutuality -Renee R. Shield PART IV. PUBLICS Chapter 13. Dancing in the Chair: A Collaborative Effort of Developing and Implementing Wheelchair Taijiquan -Zibin Guo Chapter 14. Fragments of a Limited Mutuality -Brett Williams Chapter 15. On "Making Good" in a Study of African American Children with Acquired and Traumatic Brain Injuries -Lanita Jacobs Chapter 16. On Ethnographic Love -Catherine Besteman Conclusion. Mutuality and Anthropology: Terms and Modes of Engagement -Roger Sanjek Notes Bibliography Index List of Contributors

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• NCID: BB21618589
• ISBN:
  • 9780812246568
• LCCN: 2014012657
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Philadelphia
• Pages/Volumes: vii, 374 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : GN33
  • DC23 : 306.01
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Anthropology -- Methodology
  • LCSH : Ethnology -- Methodology
  • LCSH : Anthropology -- Fieldwork -- Methodology
  • LCSH : Ethnology -- Fieldwork -- Methodology