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Expert Knowledge: First World Peoples, Consultancy, and Anthropology, Vol. 4 »

Authors: Barry Morris (Editor), Rohan Bastin
ISBN-13: 9781845450038, ISBN-10: 1845450035
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Berghahn Books, Incorporated
Date Published: July 2004
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Barry Morris

Book Synopsis

The professionalization of anthropology through practical engagement is a major force underpinning the reformulations of the nature of the anthropological project. It is therefore imperative that anthropologists critically explore the conditions of their practices, to determine the difficulties and limitations to their ethical practice. These essays examine the application of expert knowledge in fields where there is the expectation of considerable cultural, social, and political consequence for human populations as a result of state, corporate, or non-governmental re-organization. Contributors:
Rohan Bastin, Barry Morris, Janine R. Wedel, Craig R. Janes, Stevan Weine, Ralph Cintron, Ferid Agani, Elissa Dresden, Van Griffith, June Nash, Alcida Rita Ramos, Georg Henriksen, Richard Daly, Steven Robins, Barry Morris, Roland Kapferer.

	Introduction	1
	Accountability in international development advising : when individual conscience is not enough	12
	Criticizing the impunity? : bridging the widening gulf between academic discourse and action anthropology in global health	22
	Lessons of Kosova on humanitarian intervention	33
	The integration of indigenous people in civil society	43
	Advocacy rhymes with anthropology	56
	Consultancy and advocacy as radical anthropology	67
	Anthropological consultancy and the crisis of globalization	80
	Talking in tongues : consultants, anthropologists, and indigenous people	89
	Anthropology and the state : the ties that bind	102
	It's a small world after all, or, consultancy and the Disneyfication of thought	116