Transforming Academia: Challenges and Opportunities for an Engaged Anthropology

Basch, Linda G.; Wood Saunders, Lucie; Wojcicka Sharf, Jagna; Peacock, James

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Transforming Academia: Challenges and Opportunities for an Engaged Anthropology

Linda G. Basch, Lucie Wood Saunders, Jagna Wojcicka Sharf and James Peacock

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Contents

Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
I: Introduction and Overviews
1. Anthropology in a Changing Academy: Crisis or Opportunity?
2. Toward a Proactive Anthropology
3. Anthropology and the Academy: Historical Reflections
II: Ethnographers’ Analyses of the Current Situation
4. Sweatshopping Academe: Capitalism and the Part-Time Academic in U.S.Universities
5. Race, Class, and the Limits of Democratization in the Academy
6. New Voices of Diversity, Academic Relations of Production, and the Free Market
7. Restructuring and the Changing Roles of Faculty
8. Restructuring, Downsizing, Surviving? The CUNY Case
III: Administrative Vantage Points
9. Schism and Continuity in the Academy
10. Whither the Comprehensive Land-Grant University?
11. Good Fences Make Good Neighbors: Keeping Anthropology’s Subfields Alive and Growing in the 21st Century
12. Will Inclusion Be More than an Illusion in the Academy of the Future?
IV: Preserving Anthropology’s Space in Academia
13. Marginal Natives: Anthropology in Undergraduate Institutions
14. The Forgotten Undergraduate
15. Howard University: A Minority Institution Refocusing for Century Twenty-One
16. Playing the Anthropologist in Public
17. Challenge to Community College and University Departments: Survive or Thrive through Collaboration
18. Back from the Brink of Death: The Revival of Anthropology at UTEP
V: Extending Anthropological Practice beyond Academia
19. Professionalism and Perception
20. Anthropology as Agent of Change: Anthropology in Corporate Structures
21. Integrating Anthropologists into Nonacademic Work Settings
22. Invisible Anthropologist in Advocacy and Social
VI: Reflections and Conclusions on the Anthropological Stance
23. Critical Reflections
24. Comments: Crisis as Opportunity
25. Comments: The View from the Third World
26. Comments: Anthrpology in the Next Millennium. A Case Study on Service Learning and Ethnography at California State University, Monterey Bay
27. Concluding Comments
References Cited
Contributors

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Published: 1999

Publisher: American Anthropological Association

Subject

Anthropology -- United States.
Anthropology -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- United States.
Anthropology -- Study and teaching (Higher)

Transforming Academia: Challenges and Opportunities for an Engaged Anthropology

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