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Sommario
Acknowledgments and Dedication 1
Anthropology and the Engaged University: New Vision for the Discipline within Higher Education: An Introduction
Linda A. Bennett and Linda M. Whiteford 2
A Latino Anthropologist in Arizona: Obligations and Opportunities
Miguel V¿asquez 19
Responding to Community Needs through Linking Academic and Practicing Anthropology: An Engaged Scholarly Framework
Stanley E. Hyland and Linda A. Bennett 34
Working with the Difficult Past: Examples from the University of Maryland
Paul A. Shackel 57
Building Community Engagement and Public Scholarship into the University
Linda Whiteford and Elizabeth Strom 72
Synonyms for Engagement: Forging an Engaged Anthropology in North Texas
Lisa Henry, Mariela Nunez-Janes, Ann Jordan, and Alicia Re Cruz 90
Engaged Anthropology on "The Last Frontier"
Kerry D. Feldman 113
Anthropological Praxis in Higher Education
Kathryn A. Kozaitis 133
Engaging Opportunities in Urban Revitalization: Practicing Detroit Anthropology
Sherylyn Briller and Andrea Sankar 156
Bringing Communities and the University Together: Applied Anthropology at California State University, Long Beach
Barbara LeMaster, Karen Quintiliani, and Allison Hunt 179
Additional Material
Biosketches 197
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Linda A. Bennett is an associate professor of anthropology at Memphis State University and coordinates the research and training M.A. medical anthropology program. She received her M.A. from Indiana University and her Ph.D. from American University in sociocultural anthropology. As a member of the research faculty of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, George Washington University Medical Center, she conducted more than a decade of research on family rituals and alcoholism. For several years she has done applied clinical research on alcoholism treatment and collaborative fieldwork in biocultural anthropology in Yugoslavia. Currently at-large member of the governing council of NAPA and coprogram organizer for MSAPA, she was a board member of WAPA from 1981-84; a cofounder of The Alcohol and Drug Study Group; and on the governing council of the Anthropological Society of Washington from 1978-86. She is the author of
Personal Choice in Ethnic Identity Maintenance: Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes in Washington, DC.; coeditor of
The American Experience with Alcohol: Contrasting Cultural Perspectives; coauthor of
The Alcoholic Family; and author of "Treating Alcoholism in a Yugoslav Fashion,"
East European Quarterly; "Alcohol in Context: Anthropological Perspectives," Drugs
and Society; and "Family, Culture and Alcohol,"
Recent Developments in Alcoholism. Currently, she is beginning a longitudinal study of depression among treated substance abusers in Memphis.
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