Applied anthropology

2021 ◽  
pp. 128-131
Author(s):  
Mark Q. Sutton
Keyword(s):  
Applied Anthropology

Culture and the Courts: A New Field for Applied Anthropology

1956 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 154-160
Author(s):  
John J. Honigmann
Keyword(s):  
Applied Anthropology

Applied Anthropology in 1860

1942 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 19-32
Author(s):  
H. Barnett
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Church And State ◽  
Applied Anthropology ◽  
The Other ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Long Life

Much has been written of William Duncan, "the Apostle of Alaska", who came to the coast of northern British Columbia in 1857 as a missionary to the Tsimshian Indians. Although he deplored it, in the course of his sixty years' residence in this area controversy raged around him as a result of his clashes with church and state, and his work has been the subject of numerous investigations, both public and private. His enemies have called him a tyrant and a ruthless exploiter of the Indians under his control; and there are men still living who find a disproportionate amount of evil in the good that he did, especially during the declining years of his long life. On the other hand, he has had ardent and articulate supporters who have written numerous articles and no less than three books in praise of his self-sacrificing ideals and the soundness of his program for civilizing the Indian.

scholarly journals Books for Review

2018 ◽  
pp. 55-56
Keyword(s):  
Word Length ◽  
Applied Anthropology ◽  
Academic Careers ◽  
Review Articles

Anthropology in Action is always happy to hear from potential reviewers at all stages in their academic careers. We currently have a number of books awaiting review. If you are interested in reviewing any of the books on the list below, please contact the reviews editor David Orr ([email protected]). We welcome reviews of around 600 words for a single book, but we are also keen to include review articles comparing two or more works, for which the word length is negotiable. Please also be aware that we can request recent publications (within the last year) from publishers, so do feel free to let us know of any books that you would like to review within the field of applied anthropology, and we will do our best to get them for you. Also note that publishers routinely send pdf or e-copies of publications rather than hard copies.

Alonso de Zorita: Early and Last Years

1976 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 501-513
Author(s):  
Ralph H. Vigil
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Land Tenure ◽  
New World ◽  
Applied Anthropology ◽  
Indian Society ◽  
Amount Of Information ◽  
Las Casas ◽  
Bartolome De Las Casas ◽  
Active Interest ◽  
The Masses

Alonso De Zorita’s career as a Spanish judge in the Indies in the years 1548–1556, though not as well known as the career of Bartolomé de las Casas and other pro-Indian reformers, merits serious study. The arrival of Zorita and his subsequent actions as an administrator and legist represent one example of the serious efforts of the Crown in the 1540’s to impose royal control over a quasi-feudal class of conquerors and pobladores which had from the early sixteenth century entrenched itself in the New World. Moreover, Zorita was not only a jurist who attempted to implement the New Laws of 1542–43, but an inspired humanitarian who took an active interest in the native civilizations of the New World and questioned the relations that had evolved and created “a Hispano-Indian society characterized by the domination of the masses by a small privileged minority…” His ardent defense of the Indians against the charge that they were “barbarians” included a relativist line of argument that anticipated Michel de Montaigne’s celebrated comment that “everyone calls barbarian what is not his own usage.” In addition, his inquiries into native history, land tenure and inheritance laws may be considered “in effect exercises in applied anthropology, capable of yielding a vast amount of information about native customs and society” and is an example of what Europe saw or failed to see in the sixteenth century when confronted with a strange new world.

The Anthropologist as Subject

2000 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 13-15
Author(s):  
Pat Nelson
Keyword(s):  
Graduate School ◽  
Master's Degree ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Applied Anthropology ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Raising Children ◽  
Master’S Degree

When it came to preparing for a master's degree in applied anthropology, I imagined that my perspectives and positions might be unique. After all, I was an old-timer, coming back to school after organizing my time for over twenty years around raising children and a full time career in technical sales. I'd accumulated a set of life experiences I believed made me more a realist than the average graduate school student, less likely to be surprised by the necessary labors than others might be. This was my advantage. But the handicaps turned out to be substantial too.

Sources

1992 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 40-42
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Applied Anthropology ◽  
University Of Kentucky ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Different Types ◽  
The University ◽  
Conference Papers

Sources documents the work of applied and practicing anthropologists. The Project Profiles published here are based on materials submitted to the Applied Anthropology Documentation Project at the University of Kentucky. The project, since its inception in 1978, has attempted to collect the so-called fugitive literature produced by anthropologists during their problem-solving work. The collection has a wide range of different types of materials: technical reports, research monographs, conference papers, practicum and internship reports, legal briefs, proposals, and other materials.

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