Media, Anthropology and Public Engagement (eBook)

Simone Abram is Reader at the University of Durham and at Leeds Beckett University.

Sarah Pink is Distinguished Professor in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction: Mediating Publics and Anthropology: An Introduction
Simone Abram and Sarah Pink

PART I: ANTHROPOLOGY IN THE PUBLIC MEDIA SPHERE

Chapter 1. Doing Anthropology in Public: Examples from the Basque Country
Margaret Bullen

Chapter 2. The Perils of Public Anthropology? Quiescent Anthropology in Neo-Nationalist Scandinavia
Peter Hervik

Chapter 3. For a Creative Anthropological Image-Making: Reflections on Aesthetics, Relationality, Spectatorship and Knowledge in the Context of Visual Ethnographic Work in New Delhi, India
Paolo Favero

Chapter 4. A Language For Re-Generation: Boundary Crossing and Re-Formation at the Intersection of Media Ethnography and Theater
Debra Spitulnik Vidali

Chapter 5. Social Movements and Video Indígena in Latin America: Key Challenges for ‘Anthropologies Otherwise’
Juan Francisco Salazar

PART II: PUBLIC ANTHROPOLOGY AND SOCIAL MEDIA

Chapter 6. Anthropology by the Wire
Matthew Durington and Samuel Gerald Collins

Chapter 7. Public Anthropology in Times of Media Hybridity and Global Upheaval
John Postill

Chapter 8. Anthropological Publics and their Onlookers: The Dynamics of Multiple Audiences in the Blog SavageMinds.Org
Alex Golub and Kerim Friedman

Chapter 9. The Open Anthropology Cooperative: Towards an Online Public Anthropology
Francine Barone and Keith Hart

Notes on Contributors