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Why does the world need anthropologists more than ever? This new edition of
Why the World Needs Anthropologists brings together prominent academic, practicing, and applied anthropologists to answer this question. It is essential reading for both fledgling and established anthropologists, social scientists and the general public.
List of contents
1. The beginning of a new era for anthropology 2. Ethnography in all the right places 3. Living in and researching a diverse world 4. What is it like to be an anthropologist? 5. Anthropology in an uncertain world 6. Making anthropology relevant to other people's problems 7. Searching for variation and complexity 8. An anthropologist's journey from the rainforest to solar fields 9. The practitioner's role of facilitating change 10. Do we really need more anthropologists? 11. Some kind of truth about the digital anthropology 12. Preparing for anthropology careers 13. The future paths of anthropology
About the author
Dan Podjed is a Senior Research Fellow at the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Associate Professor at the University of Ljubljana, and Advisor to the Director at the Institute for Innovation and Development of the University of Ljubljana. Dan is the founder of the EASA Applied Anthropology Network and initiator of the symposium Why the World Needs Anthropologists.
Carla Guerrón Montero is an applied cultural anthropologist and Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for Material Culture Studies (CMCS) at the University of Delaware (Newark, United States). Carla has studied tourism and mobilities, food and nutrition, nation-building, and world anthropologies in Latin America. She has conducted fieldwork in Brazil, Ecuador, Grenada, and Panama.
