Cool Anthropology: How to Engage the Public with Academic Research

Cool Anthropology: How to Engage the Public with Academic Research

Cool Anthropology: How to Engage the Public with Academic Research

Cool Anthropology: How to Engage the Public with Academic Research

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Overview

Through a series of case studies by leading anthropologists, Cool Anthropology highlights the many different approaches that scholars have used to engage the public with their research. Editors Kristina Baines and Victoria Costa showcase efforts to make meaningful connections with communities outside the walls of academia, moving anthropological thinking beyond the discipline. Through their focus on collaborative efforts, contributors push against the exclusivity of "knowledge production" to ask how engaging communities as both producers and consumers of academic research helps to promote anthropology better and do anthropology better.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781487524418
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Publication date: 05/04/2022
Pages: 270
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Kristina Baines is an associate professor of anthropology at CUNY Guttman Community College, affiliated faculty at CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy, and the founder and director of anthropology at Cool Anthropology.
Victoria Costa is a creative technologist and community organizer, and the founder and director of cool at Cool Anthropology.

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments

Part One: Imperatives

1 Making Anthropology Cool: Translating Anthropological Research and Concepts Using Multimedia
Kristina Baines and Victoria Costa

2 Getting Knowledge from the Ivory Tower to the Street: Making Anthropology Matter
Agustín Fuentes

3 The Urgency of Now: Crafting and Editing Anthropological Knowledge in Real Time
Maria D. Vesperi

Part Two: The World Wide Web

4 Cool Enough to Make a Difference
Daniel H. Lende

5 PopAnth: The Conversation
Erin B. Taylor, John McCreery, and Gwendolen Lynch

6 SAPIENS: An Origins Story
Chip Colwell and Leslie Aiello

Part Three: Reimaging Public Spaces

7 Visualizing Immigrant Phoenix: An Urban Visual Ethnographic Collaborative
Kristin Koptiuch

8 The Tale Is the Map: Virtual Reality Experiences in Anthropology
Scott Wilson

9 Creating Inclusive Public Space: Participatory Design Ethnography in a University Library
Krista Harper

10 Extravagance Outside of Anthropology: How to Sell Analytic Induction to Entrepreneurs
James Mullooly

Part Four: Creatives

11 Rez-Colored Glasses: Disentangling Indigenous Lives from the Colonial Gaze
Gregg Deal and Kerry Hawk Lessard

12 Sonic Anthropology: From Remixing Archives to Reimagining Cultures
Tom Miller

13 Engaging a Wider Audience with Fiction Film
Carylanna Taylor

14 Let Us Do More than Hope: Comics, Complexity and an Anthropology in Pictures and Words
Sally Campbell Galman

Contributors
Index

What People are Saying About This

Alisse Waterston

"Envisioned as a community, a movement, a website, and now an edited volume, Cool Anthropology demonstrates the value of engaging broad audiences with powerful insights offered by anthropology. The book details a rich array of new and innovative approaches to disseminating knowledge, providing readers a how-to on public anthropology, a sense of camaraderie, and affirmation that such efforts are not only acceptable but imperative."

Laura Nader

"Cool Anthropology is a pioneering attempt for anthropologists to reach out to broad audiences beyond the classroom by availing themselves of contemporary technologies not previously used as tools to connect with the public. The book is a critical step forward at a time when the discipline is needed to counter a world full of disinformation and misinformation."

S. Elizabeth Bird

"A book that defies categorization — a joyful collection of essays that takes anthropology from 'remixing' archives to reimagining urban living spaces, from rethinking anthropological storytelling to creating genuinely collaborative experiences through virtual reality. The contributors move beyond traditional understandings of applied or engaged anthropology, challenging readers to embrace a cool, ethical anthropology that reaches far beyond the academy."

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