Introduction -- Collaborative Research in the United States -- Urban Comadronas: Maternal and Child Health Research and Policy Formulation in a Puerto Rican Community -- In the People's Service: The Kansas Kickapoo Technical Assistance Project -- Community Action and Social Adaptation: The Farmworker Movement in the Midwest -- Linguistics in Action: The Hualapai Bilingual/Bicultural Education Program -- Collaborative Educational Ethnography: Problems and Profits -- Collaborative Research in the Third World -- Against the Odds: Collaboration and Development at Vicos -- The Mexican Urban Housing Project: A Collaboration Between la area Tecnica y la area Social -- Saving the City: University Research, Political Action, and the Squatter Problem in Davao City, Philippines -- Concluding Comments -- Perspectives on Collaborative Research
Summary
Community case studies are basic to anthropology, yet there are relatively few examples in which the promotion of social change has been the explicit goal of the research