Anthropology : Development and Modern Challenges
Contents: Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. Anthropology, development and human rights. 3. Anthropology and development in a globalized India. 4. Globalization and international service. 5. Globalization and the psychological anthropology of childhood and adolescence. 6. Anthropological knowledge for human welfare. 7. Anthropology of a genocide: tribal movements in Central India against over industrialization. 8. In search of anthropological concreteness: individual narratives in anthropology. 9. The anthropology of colonialism: culture, history and the emergence. 10. Anthropology and post-colonial thought: the paradoxical quest for positionality. 11. An anthropological concept of the concept. 12. The challenge of television for anthropology. 13. Majoring in anthropology. Bibliography. Index.
Anthropology is the study of humans, past and present. To understand the full sweep and complexity of cultures across all of human history, anthropology draws and builds upon knowledge from the social and biological sciences as well as the humanities and physical sciences. A central concern of anthropologists is the application of knowledge to the solution of human problems. Historically, anthropologists in the United States have been trained in one of four areas: socio cultural anthropology, biological/physical anthropology, archaeology and linguistics. Anthropologists often integrate the perspectives of several of these areas into their research, teaching, and professional lives.
Addressing complex questions, such as human origins, the past and contemporary spread and treatment of infectious disease, or globalization, requires synthesizing information from all four subfields. Anthropologists are highly specialized in our research interests, yet we remain generalists in our observations of the human conditions and we advocate for a public anthropology that is committed to bringing knowledge to broad audiences. Anthropologists collaborate closely with people whose cultural patterns and processes we seek to understand or whose living conditions require amelioration.
Anthropology is the study of humans, past and present. To understand the full sweep and complexity of cultures across all of human history, anthropology draws and builds upon knowledge from the social and biological sciences as well as the humanities and physical sciences. A central concern of anthropologists is the application of knowledge to the solution of human problems. Historically, anthropologists in the United States have been trained in one of four areas: socio cultural anthropology, biological/physical anthropology, archaeology and linguistics. Anthropologists often integrate the perspectives of several of these areas into their research, teaching, and professional lives.
Addressing complex questions, such as human origins, the past and contemporary spread and treatment of infectious disease, or globalization, requires synthesizing information from all four subfields. Anthropologists are highly specialized in our research interests, yet we remain generalists in our observations of the human conditions and we advocate for a public anthropology that is committed to bringing knowledge to broad audiences. Anthropologists collaborate closely with people whose cultural patterns and processes we seek to understand or whose living conditions require amelioration.
