"Cool Anthropology is a practical ""how to"" guide for anthropologists looking to make their work relevant and accessible to a wide audience.
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."
Edited by:
Kristina Baines,
Victoria Costa
Imprint: University of Toronto Press
Country of Publication: Canada
Dimensions:
Height: 229mm,
Width: 152mm,
Spine: 17mm
Weight: 450g
ISBN: 9781487524418
ISBN 10: 1487524412
Pages: 270
Publication Date: 07 July 2022
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Professional and scholarly
,
Primary
,
Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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 AgustÃn 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
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.
Reviews for Cool Anthropology: How to Engage the Public with Academic Research
""" 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."" --Laura Nader, University of California, Berkeley, author of Laura Nader: Letters to and from an Anthropologist ""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."" --Alisse Waterston, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York (CUNY), coauthor of Light in Dark Times: The Human Search for Meaning ""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."" --S. Elizabeth Bird, University of South Florida, author of The Audience in Everyday Life: Living in a Media World"