Strang, V: What Anthropologists Do

Glossary Introduction What do anthropologists do? Employing Anthropology Conducting Research Chapter 1. Anthropology and Advocacy Balancing Acts Facilitating Cross-cultural Communication Defending Livelihoods and Knowledge Human Rights Land Rights Participatory Action Chapter 2. Anthropology and Aid Crossing Boundaries Aid and Ambiguity NGO-graphy Assisting Aid Dealing with Displacement Understanding Race and Racism Chapter 3. Anthropology and Development Critiquing Development In Development Connecting Multiple Realities Conserving Cultural Diversity Globalization Chapter 4. Anthropology and the Environment 'Environmental' Problems Indigenous Knowledges Political Ecology Unpacking Garbage Human-Animal Relations Anthropology and Environmentalism Chapter 5. Anthropology and Governance The Big Picture The Not So Big Picture Home Work Prescription and Persuasion Education Chapter 6. Anthropology, Business and Industry Money Matters Anthropologists in Business Multinational and Multicultural Communication Anthropology and Communications Media Marketing Anthropology Designing Anthropology Chapter 7. Anthropology and Health Health in a Cultural Context From The Cradle to The Grave Food and Lifestyle Understanding Disease Drug Cultures and Crime Managing Health Chapter 8. Anthropology, Art and Identity Defining Identity Gender and Sexuality Race, Nationalism and Social Movements Representing Identity Art and Performance Museums and Cultural Heritage Film and Photography Conclusion Applying Anthropology Interdisciplinary Anthropology Transferring Anthropology What Kind of People Become Anthropologists? Appendix 1. Studying Anthropology Appendix 2. Further Reading Appendix 3. Other resources Anthropology Associations and Networks Anthropology Journals Virtual Libraries in Anthropology Bibliography Acknowledgements

Veronica Strang is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Auckland. An environmental anthropologist, she has written extensively on water, land and resource issues in Australia and the UK, and is the author of Uncommon Ground: cultural landscapes and environmental values (Berg 1997), and The Meaning of Water (Berg 2004).

Veronica Strang's What Anthropologists Do provides a valuable panoramic view of the wide-ranging work undertaken by anthropologists. Engagingly written and useful for school and anthropology students considering their career options, it will be accessible for any reader wondering what it is that anthropologists really do. Dr Kathryn Tomlinson Strang's excellent writing is interspersed with first-person narratives by practicing anthropologists in and out of the university relating why they chose the field and how their work grew into professions for which they have great passion. The combination of scholarship and personal accounts of practitioners make this book one of a kind. Essential. M. Cedar Face, CHOICE Magazine It is a commendable exericse to gather a huge amount of information on the application of anthropology in almost every possible field in the comtemporary world and to disseminate this knowledge in simple and easy-to-understand language to its young (or not) readers. Subhadra Mitra Channa, Anthropological Notebooks