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Title Anthropology and public service : the UK experience / edited by Jeremy MacClancy
Published New York : Berghahn Books, 2017
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Contents Introduction / Jeremy MacClancy -- On her majesty's service (and beyond) : anthropology's contribution to an unconventional career / Mils Hills -- You can't go home again : anthropology displacement and the work of government / Benjamin R. Smith -- Anthropology in the closet : contributions to community development and local government in the UK / Robert Gregory -- Parading through the peace process : anthropology, governance and crisis in Northern Ireland / Dominic Bryan and Neil Jarman -- From participant observer to observed participant : a prison governor's experience / Peter Bennett -- Identity and appropriation in applied health research / Rachael Gooberman-Hill
Summary These days an increasing number of social anthropologists do not find employment within academia. Rather, many find jobs with commercial organizations or in government, where they run research teams and create policy. These scholars provide a much-needed social dimension to government thinking and practice. Anthropology and Public Service shows how anthropologists can set new agendas, and revise old ones in the public sector. Written for scholars and students of various social sciences, these chapters include discussions of anthropologists' work with the Department for International Development, the Ministry of Defence, the UK Border Agency, and the Cabinet Office, and their contributions to prison governance
Analysis UK, Applied Anthropology, Social Anthropology, Civil Service, Political Anthropology
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 02, 2022)
Subject Applied anthropology -- Great Britain
Anthropologists -- Employment -- Great Britain
Political science -- Anthropological aspects -- Great Britain
Civil service -- Great Britain
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Regional Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Methodology.
Applied anthropology
Civil service
Political science -- Anthropological aspects
Great Britain
Form Electronic book
Author MacClancy, Jeremy, editor
LC no. 2016056858
ISBN 9781785334030
1785334034