2nd Edition
Why the World Needs Anthropologists
List of figures
List of contributors
Acknowledgments
1. The beginning of a new era for anthropology
Dan Podjed and Carla Guerrón Montero
2. Ethnography in all the right places
Thomas Hylland Eriksen
3. Living in and researching a diverse world
Lenora Bohren
4. What is it like to be an anthropologist?
Joana Breidenbach
5. Anthropology in an uncertain world
Sarah Pink
6. Making anthropology relevant to other people’s problems
Steffen Jöhncke
7. Searching for variation and complexity
Tanja Winther
8. An anthropologist’s journey from the rainforest to solar fields
Sophie Bouly de Lesdain
9. The practitioner’s role of facilitating change
Anna Cohen Kirah
10. Do we really need more anthropologists?
Riall W. Nolan
11. Some kind of truth about the digital anthropology
Daniel Miller
12. Preparing for anthropology careers
Elizabeth K. Briody
13. The future paths of anthropology
Carla Guerrón Montero and Dan Podjed
Index
Biography
Dan Podjed is a Senior Research Fellow at the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Associate Professor at the University of Ljubljana, and Advisor to the Director at the Institute for Innovation and Development of the University of Ljubljana. Dan is the founder of the EASA Applied Anthropology Network and initiator of the symposium Why the World Needs Anthropologists.
Carla Guerrón Montero is an applied cultural anthropologist, Professor of Anthropology, and Director of the Center for Material Culture Studies (CMCS) at the University of Delaware (Newark, United States). Carla has studied tourism and mobilities, food and nutrition, nation-building, and world anthropologies in Latin America. She is a long-serving member of the Advisory and Organising Committees of the symposium Why the World Needs Anthropologists.
