Diagnosing America: Anthropology and Public EngagementShepard Forman University of Michigan Press, 1995 - 314 من الصفحات For years, anthropology has brought the lives and beliefs of "exotic" peoples to audiences in the West. Diagnosing America: Anthropology and Public Engagement reveals the power of anthropological description and analysis when applied to social, economic, and political problems in the contemporary United States and demonstrates the urgent need for this work. Debunking the notion of anthropology as a "value-free" science, the authors argue forcefully for an anthropology expressly committed to cultural pluralism and democratic participation. At the same time, individual essays demonstrate the applicability of standard anthropological methods to the study of contemporary U.S. society and culture as they investigate contested values, community politics, middle-class economics, and workplace culture or describe the psychophysiological stress effects of exclusion on African- Americans and the coping mechanisms of Mexican-Americans along the border. Diagnosing America and the challenging "Statement to the Profession" that concludes it call for anthropologists to reach beyond the parochialism of their own discipline and to engage history, economics, sociology, and the policy sciences. It will be of interest to scholars in each of these fields who are concerned with the study and resolution of contemporary social problems in the United States and to students of American culture in this country and abroad. Shepard Forman is Director of the International Affairs Program of the Ford Foundation and a former Professor of Anthropology, University of Michigan. |
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American Cultural Values Disorders and Challenges | 23 |
Democratic Participation A View from Anthropology | 51 |
The Heartbeat of Productivity Hierarchy and Transformation in American Work Relations | 75 |
Deindustrialization Poverty and Downward Mobility Toward an Anthropology of Economic Disorder | 121 |
Psychophysiological Stress and Disorders of Industrial Society A Critical Theoretical Formulation for Biocultural Research | 149 |
Plural Strategies of Survival and Cultural Formation in USMexican Households in a Region of Dynamic Transformation The USMexico Borderlands | 193 |
Disorders of Our Own A Conclusion | 235 |
The American Anthropological Association Panel on Disorders of Industrial Societies | 295 |
Contributors | 313 |
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