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Public anthropology, according to Robert Borofsky, a professor at Hawaii Pacific University, "demonstrates the ability of anthropology and anthropologists to effectively address problems beyond the discipline—illuminating larger social issues of our times as well as encouraging broad, public conversations about them with the explicit goal of fostering social change" (Borofsky 2004).
Public anthropology was created by Robert Borofsky, a professor at Hawaii Pacific University, to "demonstrate the ability of anthropology and anthropologists to effectively address problems beyond the discipline – illuminating larger social issues of our times as well as encouraging broad, public conversations about them with the explicit ...
Robert Borofsky is an American anthropologist specializing in public anthropology and the Pacific. A number of his works continue to be read in college curricula today. Before retiring in 2020, Borofsky concentrated on undergraduate education as a Professor of Anthropology at Hawaii Pacific University.
This award was established in 2007, created in honor of Dr. Vera Mae Green (1928-1982) who was a pioneer in public and caribbean anthropology. She focused on activism, issues of poverty, and international human rights, along with contributing to a better understanding of aging an migration.
Public anthropology – Anthropology of religion – Transpersonal anthropology – studies the relationship between altered states of consciousness and culture; Urban anthropology – concerned with issues of urbanization, poverty, and neoliberalism; Visual anthropology – study and production of ethnographic photography
Catherine Lowe Besteman is an Italian American abolitionist educator at Colby College, where she holds the Francis F. Bartlett and Ruth K. Bartlett Chair in Anthropology.. Her research and practice engage the public humanities to explore abolitionist possibilities in Mai
Werbner won the Amaury Talbot Prize of the Royal Anthropological Institute for his 1991 book Tears of the Dead: The Social Biography of an African Family. [1]Mieka Ritsema, writing of Werbner's Reasonable Radicals and Citizenship in Botswana: The Public Anthropology of Kalanga Elites in the African Studies Review, described it as "a fascinating account of the state-making practices of elites ...
The Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA) is a worldwide organization for the Applied Social Sciences, established "to promote the integration of anthropological perspectives and methods in solving human problems throughout the world; to advocate for fair and just public policy based upon sound research; to promote public recognition of anthropology as a profession; and to support the ...