Profiles of Anthropological Praxis

Terry M. Redding is currently a Strategic Communications Specialist with a maternal and child health project funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). He has served as president of the Washington Association of Professional Anthropologists and as communications chair for the National Association for the Practice of Anthropology.

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Foreword

Shirley J. Fiske and Robert M. Wulff



Introduction

Terry M. Redding and Charles C. Cheney



Part I: Economic Development



Chapter 1. Applying Anthropology in Emergency Food Security Recovery: An Afghanistan Case

Adam Koons



Chapter 2. Ecotourism in One Amazon Community Over 25 Years: My Role as Anthropologist, Witness, Scribe, and Facilitator

Amanda Stronza



Chapter 3. Ethnic Minority Women-Led Routine Road Maintenance in Vietnam

Mari Clarke



Part II: Communities and the Environment



Chapter 4. New Pathways Toward the Co-management of Natural Resources in Puerto Rico: Applied Anthropology, Public Access, and Environmental Public Policy

Federico Cintrón-Moscoso



Chapter 5. Deal Island Peninsula Partnership: Applying Environmental Anthropology, Ethnography, and Collaborative Learning

Michael Paolisso, Elizabeth Van Dolah, Katherine J. Johnson, and Christine D. Miller Hesed 



Chapter 6. Marcellus Shale Public Health Study

Thurka Sangaramoorthy



Part III: Cultural Preservation



Chapter 7. The Denver Museum of Nature & Science Repatriation Initiative

Stephen E. Nash and Chip Colwell



Chapter 8. Alan Boraas and Kahtnuht'ana Qenaga: Preserving and Renewing an Alaska Native Language

Kerry D. Feldman and Phyllis A. Fast



Chapter 9. San Diego’s Little Saigon: Using Anthropologically Informed Outreach to Create a New Public Space

Stephen Weidlich



Part IV: Health Promotion and Management



Chapter 10. Pastors at Risk: Toward an Improved Culture of Health for United Methodist Clergy in North Carolina

Cathleen E. Crain, Nathaniel Tashima, and Terry M. Redding



Chapter 11. Anthropology in an Epidemic: Ebola in West Africa

Olive Minor



Chapter 12. Caring Together, Living Better: Anthropologists Contributions to a Caregiver Support Program in the South Suburbs of Cook County, IL

Rebecca L. H. Berman and Madelyn Iris



Chapter 13. A Video Ethnographic Study: Raising Healthy Children in Poverty and Examples of Excellence in Addressing Childhood Wellness

Cathleen E. Crain, Nathaniel Tashima, Reiko Ishihara-Brito, and Erick Lee Cummings



Part V: Sociocultural Change and Adaptation



Chapter 14. Dug-well Revival: an Ethnographic Project for Drinking Water in North Bihar, India

Luisa Cortesi



Chapter 15. A New Model for News: Studying the Deep Structure of Young-Adult News Consumption

Robbie Blinkoff



Chapter 16. Learning to Live with Difference: How CEDAR Takes Anthropology Out of the Classroom and Into the World

David W. Montgomery, Adam B. Seligman, and Rahel R. Wasserfall



Chapter 17. Birangona: Towards Ethical Testimonies of Sexual Violence During Conflict

Nayanika Mookherjee



Part VI: Policy Change



Chapter 18. Anthropology in Action: An Anthropologist's Role in Restoring U.S. Support to the United Nations Population Fund

Barbara Pillsbury



Chapter 19. Decent Care: Shifting the Health Care Paradigm

Cathleen E. Crain and Nathaniel Tashima



Chapter 20. Applying Anthropological Perspectives and Methods in Evaluations of Persistent Undercounts of Race and Hispanic Minorities and Young Children in U.S. Censuses

Laurie Schwede



Chapter 21. Using the Concept of Social Well-Being to Develop and Implement a Framework for UNICEF Planning and Evaluating Efforts to Achieve Rights and Development Goals for Children and Families

Mark Edberg



Conclusion

Terry M. Redding and Charles C. Cheney



Afterword

Riall W. Nolan



Index