1st Edition

Anthropological Praxis Translating Knowledge Into Action

Edited By Robert M. Wulff Copyright 1987
    304 Pages
    by Routledge

    304 Pages
    by Routledge

    This book is a collection of original case studies describing anthropological knowledge successfully translated into action. It describes the targeted problem or issue, his or her role as an anthropologist, the specific anthropological skills or knowledge used, and the results of the work.

    Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- Information Production: Defining the Problem -- The Planning of Health Education Strategies in Swaziland -- Measuring the Unmeasurable: A Microregional Study of an Undocumented Population -- Issue-Centered Social Impact Assessment -- Practicing Sociomedicine: Redefining the Problem of Infant Mortality in Washington, D.C. -- The International Sorghum/Millet Research Project -- Policy Formulation: Choosing an Alternative and Setting a Direction -- The Integration of Modern and Traditional Health Sectors in Swaziland -- Customary Law Development in Papua New Guinea -- Redesigning Social Service Delivery Policy: The Anthropologist as Mediator -- Activating Community Participation in a Southern Paiute Reservation Development Program -- Planning and Implementation: Deciding what to do -- FJUA Relocation: Applying Clinical Anthropology in a Troubled Situation -- A Case of Lead Poisoning from Folk Remedies in Mexican American Communities -- Intercultural Mediation at Truk International Airport -- Promoting Socioculturally Feasible Housing and Community Upgrading Programs in Botswana -- Designing Apache Homes with Apaches -- Tribally Controlled Culture Change: The Northern Ute Language Renewal Project -- Preserving Plants for Pomos -- The Domestication of Wood in Haiti: A Case Study in Applied Evolution -- Evaluation: Assessing what Happened -- A National Ethnographic Evaluation of the Career Intern Program -- Welfare Reform Before Its Time: The Evaluation of the Minnesota Work Equity Project -- The Delivery of Rural Reproductive Medicine