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This book shows how leading applied anthropologists use complex and fluid new concepts of culture and community--such as globalization, translocality, ethnoscape--to solve pressing human problems in public health, community development, finance, technology, transportation, gender, environment, immigration, aging, and child welfare.
List of contents
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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Christina Wasson, Mary Odell Butler, Jacqueline Copeland-Carson
Summary
This book shows how leading applied anthropologists use complex and fluid new concepts of culture and community?such as globalization, translocality, ethnoscape?to solve pressing human problems in public health, community development, finance, technology, transportation, gender, environment, immigration, aging, and child welfare.
