Anthropology Matters

Mullings, Leith

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“…In fact, the case for the discipline's potential practical relevance stretches from the writings of Malinowski (e.g. ; ; ) to recent calls for social significance on both sides of the Atlantic, including those by Ingold (: 383), Kirsch (), and Mullings ().…”

Section: Anthropology's Moral Economy: a Desire For Social Efficacymentioning

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Anthropology's ‘impact’: a comment on audit and the unmeasurable nature of critique

Stein

2017

Royal Anthropological Inst

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The UK government has recently made higher education funding of anthropological research partially dependent on its social ‘impact’. Based on work in higher education and fifty interviews with anthropologists trained in Britain, this article analyses the implications of these impact requirements. It shows that anthropologists generally share government desires for their work to have a societal effect, but that impact, as understood in the United Kingdom's dominant research measurement exercise known as the Research Excellence Framework (REF), is marked by a series of important practical and conceptual limitations. On a practical level, it underestimates the social effects of teaching, relies on an overly limiting notion of evidence, and significantly restricts the scope of permissible research. On a conceptual level, impact measurement cannot fully grasp the nature or effect of anthropology, insofar as the latter is a critical science that contributes to the constant renewal of audit's own politico‐epistemic foundations. This exposes an important limitation of audit practices more widely, which has so far received little scholarly attention: audits are in several ways incapable of grasping sociocultural critique.

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Section: Anthropology's Moral Economy: a Desire For Social Efficacymentioning

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Anthropology's ‘impact’: a comment on audit and the unmeasurable nature of critique

Stein

2017

Royal Anthropological Inst

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“…In this view, anthropology can be used as "a means to support and bring about positive change" (Beck & Maida, 2017, p. 3). Leith Mullings (2015), a former President of the American Anthropological Association, remarks in her presidential address in 2013 that the significance of anthropology lies in its "theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches that could uncover relationships of power and structures of inequality" (p. 5). It is also doubtless true that thousands of anthropologists have been successfully working in and with host communities.…”

Section: Theorizing Public Anthropologymentioning

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Public Anthropology in the United States and Indonesia

Subkhan¹

2019

Hum.

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This paper discusses the development of public anthropology in the United States and Indonesia. Drawing on literature reviews and archive studies, this article argues that public anthropology needs to be considered as a pragmatic strategy to elevate the position of anthropology in the public realm, and make it relevant to society. As a scholarly concept, public anthropology in Indonesia is not as popular as in the United States relative to applied anthropology. However, its individual and institutional practices have been flourishing in the last decade, including collaborative works and community engagement, publishing scholarship beyond conventional academic forms, active involvement in contemporary human problems, and efforts to influence public policies. To foster Indonesian public anthropology, an academic promotion system that gives more appreciation to public scholarship should be encouraged. Academic anthropologists may also take the initiative to include public anthropology in the anthropology curriculum. Moreover, the Indonesian Anthropological Association (AAI) can facilitate and promote public anthropology in broader public debates, and maintain its active role in defending humanity.

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“…During the late 20th century, anthropologists began to confront the discipline's historic complicity in promoting various forms of racism, colonialism, and imperialism (Low and Merry ; Mullings ). These critiques entreated ethnographers to both recognize their subjectivities and apply them toward analyzing power and privilege (see Marcus and Fisher ; Hale ).…”

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Anthropological Superheroes and the Consequences of Activist Ethnography

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2014

American Anthropologist

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Anthropology Matters

Cited by 27 publications

References 28 publications

Anthropology's ‘impact’: a comment on audit and the unmeasurable nature of critique

Anthropology's ‘impact’: a comment on audit and the unmeasurable nature of critique

Public Anthropology in the United States and Indonesia

Anthropological Superheroes and the Consequences of Activist Ethnography

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