Overview
Low, Setha M. and Sally Engle Merry. 2010. Engaged Anthropology: Diversity and
Dilemmas. Current Anthropology 51(2):S203–S226.
Kirsch, Stuart. 2010. Experiments in Engaged Anthropology. Collaborative
Anthropologies 3:69–80.
Nader, Laura. 1972. Up the Anthropologist: Perspectives Gained from Studying Up. In D.
Hymes, ed., Reinventing Anthropology, 284–311. New York: Random House.
Gledhill, John. 2002. Anthropology and Politics: Commitment, Responsibility and the
Academy. In Joan Vincent, ed., The Anthropology of Politics: A Reader in Ethnography, Theory
and Critique, 438–451. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers Ltd.
In Favor of Engaged Anthropology
Scheper-Hughes, Nancy. 1995. The Primacy of the Ethical: Propositions for a
Militant Anthropology. Current Anthropology 36:409–420.
Ramos, Alcida. 1999. Anthropologists as Political Actor. Journal of Latin American
Anthropology 4(2):172–189.
Hale, Charles. 2006. Activist Research v. Cultural Critique: Indigenous Land Rights
and the Contradictions of Politically Engaged Anthropology. Cultural
Anthropology 21(1):96–120.
Against Engaged Anthropology
Hastrup, Kirsten and Peter Elsass. 1990. Anthropological Advocacy: A
Contradiction in Terms? Current Anthropology 31(3):301–311, 387–390.
Ferguson, James. 1999. Chapter one: Copper Belt in Theory (read pages 24–39)
from Expectations of Modernity: Myths and Meanings of Urban Life on the
Zambian Copperbelt. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Gross, Daniel and Stuart Plattner. 2002. Anthropology as Social Work:
Collaborative Models of Anthropological Research. Anthropology News. 43(8):4.
Shah, Alpa. 2013. The Tensions over Liberal Citizenship in a Marxist
Revolutionary Situation: The Maoists in India. Critique of Anthropology 33 (1):
91–109.
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Sundar, Nandini. 2013. Reflections on Civil Liberties, Citizenship, Adivasi Agency
and Maoism: A Response to Alpa Shah. Critique of Anthropology 33(3) 361–368.
Shah, Alpa. 2013. Response to Nandini Sundar's response to “The tensions over
citizenship in a Marxist-Leninist revolutionary situation: the Maoists in India.”
Critique of Anthropology 33 (4): 476-479.
Good Enough Ethnography?
Scheper-Hughes, Nancy. 1993. “Good Enough Ethnography.” Death Without
Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil, 26–30. Berkeley: University of
California Press.
Ortner, Sherry B. 1995. Resistance and the Problem of Ethnographic Refusal.
Comparative Studies in Society and History 37(1):173–193.
Macdonald, Gaynor. 2002. Ethnography, Advocacy and Feminism: A Volatile Mix.
A View from a Reading of Diane Bell’s Ngarrindjeri Wurruwarrin. The Australian
Journal of Anthropology 13(1): 88–110.
Bell, Diane. 2002. Writing in the Eye of a Storm: Response to Gaynor
Macdonald’s review essay of Ngarrindjeri Wurruwarrin. The Australia Journal of
Anthropology 13(2):219–223.
Strathern, Marilyn. 1987. An Awkward Relationship: The Case of Feminism and
Anthropology. Signs 12(2):276–292.
Collaborative / Public / Engaged
Lassiter, Luke Eric. 2005. Collaborative Ethnography and Public Anthropology.
Current Anthropology 46(1):83–106.
Besteman, Catherine & Angelique Haugerud. 2013. The Desire for Relevance.
Anthropology Today 29(6):1–2.
Besteman, Catherine. 2013. Three reflections on Public Anthropology.
Anthropology Today 29(6):3–6.
Mahmood, Cynthia Keppley. 2012. A Hobby No More: Anxieties of Engaged
Anthropology at the Heart of Empire. Anthropology Today 28(4):24–25.
Eriksen, Thomas Hylland. 2013. The Anansi Position. Anthropology Today 29(6):14–15.
Martin Keir, & Alex Flynn. 2015.Anthropological Theory and Engagement
A Zero-Sum Game? Anthropology Today 31(1):12–14.
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Public and Engaged Anthropology in Norway (and Saami-land)
Howell, Signe. 2010. Norwegian Academic Anthropologists in Public Spaces. Current
Anthropology 51(S2): S269–S277.
Stordahl, Vigdis. 2008. Nation Building through Knowledge Building; The Discourse of
Sami Higher Education and Research in Norway Today. In Minde, Henry, ed., Indigenous
Peoples. Self-determination. Knowledge. Indigeneity. 249-265. The Netherlands:Eboron
Delft.
Bolaane, Maitseo and Sidsel Saugstad. 2015. Research on, with, and by Indigenous
Peoples: Reflections on Research Ethics, Local Strategies and International Engagement.
In Peter Sköld et al., Under the Same Sun: Parallel Issues and Mutual Challenges for San
and Smi Peoples and Research: A Collaboration between San Botswana and Swedish
Sápmi, 169-192. Vaartoe-CeSam, University of Umeå, Sweden
Anthropologists in Legal Contexts
Thuen, Trond. 2004. Anthropological Knowledge in the Courtroom. Conflicting
Paradigms. Social Anthropology 12 (3): 265–287.
Paine, Robert. 1996. In Chief Justice McEachern’s Shoes: Anthropology’s Ineffectiveness
in Court. Political and Legal Anthropology Review 19:59–70.
Dominy, Michèle. 1990. New Zealand's Waitangi Tribunal: Cultural Politics of an
Anthropology of the High Country. Anthropology Today 6(2):11-15.
Levine, Stephen et al. 1990. Cultural Politics in New Zealand: Responses to Michèle
Dominy. Anthropology Today 6(3):3-9.
Dominy Michèle D. and George Walford. 1990. Letters. Anthropology Today 6(4):23- 24.
Kirsch, Stuart. 2001. Lost Worlds: Environmental Disaster, ‘Culture Loss’ and the Law.
Current Anthropology 42(2):167–198.
Monograph
Kirsch, Stuart. 2014. Mining Capitalism: The Relationship between Corporations
and their Critics. Berkeley: University of California Press. (240 pgs)