Media, Anthropology and Public Engagement

Pink, S.; Abram, S.

Media, Anthropology and Public Engagement

Pink, S.; Abram, S.

Authors

S. Pink

Professor Simone Abram simone.abram@durham.ac.uk
Executive Director

Abstract

Media, Anthropology and Public Engagement looks at how changing public media and arts practices are enabling the emergence of a new public anthropology. In doing so, we address a set of key questions about anthropology’s public role. Each of the key terms in this phrase – public, anthropology, media, engagement – needs to be considered, since each has multiple referents and contested meanings. In this introduction, we set out the premises for understanding what an engaged anthropology can be, and how new media can be put to work to broad eff ect. The chapters in this collection demonstrate which questions must be asked, and how they can be addressed in practical terms as well as through intellectual argument, and illustrate how initiatives by a range of anthropologists in diff erent (largely anglophone) countries have adopted media into their practices.

Citation

Pink, S., & Abram, S. (2015). Media, Anthropology and Public Engagement. Berghahn Journals

Book Type	Authored Book
Publication Date	Oct 1, 2015
Deposit Date	May 28, 2013
Publicly Available Date	Oct 10, 2017
Publisher	Berghahn Journals
Series Title	Studies in public and applied anthropology
Publisher URL	http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title.php?rowtag=PinkMedia

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This excerpt is part of a larger work published by Berghahn Books (http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title.php?rowtag=PinkMedia). Pink, Sarah and Abram, Simone. 2015. Media, Anthropology and Public Engagement. New York: Berghahn Books.