Engaged observer : anthropology, advocacy, and activism / edited by Victoria Sanford and Asale Angel-Ajani ; foreword by Philippe Bourgois.

Other author Sanford, Victoria.
Other author Angel-Ajani, Asale.
Format Book
Publication InfoNew Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2006.
Descriptionxii, 254 pages ; 23 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents only
Subjects
Anthropology--Philosophy.
Political anthropology.
Anthropological ethics.
Social conflict.
Violence.
Social advocacy.
Social justice.

Contents Excavations of the heart : reflections on truth, memory, and structures of understanding / Victoria Sanford -- Scholarship, advocacy, and the politics of engagement in Burma (Myanmar) / Monique Skidmore -- War and the nature of ultimate things : an essay on the study of postwar cultures / Roberta Culbertson -- Expert witness : notes toward revisiting the politics of listening / Asale Angel-Ajani -- Moral chronologies : generation and popular memory in a Palestinian refugee camp / John Collins -- "In our beds and our graves" : revealing the politics of pleasure and pain in the time of AIDS / Michael J. Bosia -- Portrait of a paramilitary ; putting a human face on the Colombian conflict / Aldo Civico -- Fratricidal war or ethnocidal strategy? : women's experience with political violence in Chiapas / R. Aída Hernández Castillo -- Indigenous women and gendered resistance in the wake of acteal : a feminist activist research perspective / Shannon Speed -- It's a hard place to be a revolutionary woman : finding peace and justice in postwar El Salvador / Irina Carlota Silber -- Perils and promises of engaged anthropology : historical transitions and ethnographic dilemmas / Kay B. Warren -- Knowledge in the service of a vision : politically engaged anthropology / Dana-Ain Davis.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2006005654
ISBN0813538912 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN0813538920 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN9780813538914
ISBN9780813538921