Cool Anthropology

Kristina Baines is an associate professor of anthropology at CUNY Guttman Community College, affiliated faculty at CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy, and the founder and director of anthropology at Cool Anthropology. Victoria Costa is a creative technologist and community organizer, and the founder and director of cool at Cool Anthropology.

Preface
Acknowledgments


Part One: Imperatives


1 Making Anthropology Cool: Translating Anthropological Research and Concepts Using Multimedia
Kristina Baines and Victoria Costa


2 Getting Knowledge from the Ivory Tower to the Street: Making Anthropology Matter
Agustín Fuentes


3 The Urgency of Now: Crafting and Editing Anthropological Knowledge in Real Time
Maria D. Vesperi


Part Two: The World Wide Web


4 Cool Enough to Make a Difference
Daniel H. Lende


5 PopAnth: The Conversation
Erin B. Taylor, John McCreery, and Gwendolen Lynch


6 SAPIENS: An Origins Story
Chip Colwell and Leslie Aiello


Part Three: Reimaging Public Spaces


7 Visualizing Immigrant Phoenix: An Urban Visual Ethnographic Collaborative
Kristin Koptiuch


8 The Tale Is the Map: Virtual Reality Experiences in Anthropology
Scott Wilson


9 Creating Inclusive Public Space: Participatory Design Ethnography in a University Library
Krista Harper


10 Extravagance Outside of Anthropology: How to Sell Analytic Induction to Entrepreneurs
James Mullooly


Part Four: Creatives


11 Rez-Colored Glasses: Disentangling Indigenous Lives from the Colonial Gaze
Gregg Deal and Kerry Hawk Lessard


12 Sonic Anthropology: From Remixing Archives to Reimagining Cultures
Tom Miller


13 Engaging a Wider Audience with Fiction Film
Carylanna Taylor


14 Let Us Do More than Hope: Comics, Complexity and an Anthropology in Pictures and Words
Sally Campbell Galman


Contributors
Index