Cool Anthropology: How to Engage the Public with Academic Research

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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. Cover Half-Title Page Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Contents Preface Acknowledgments Part One: Imperatives 1. Making Anthropology Cool: Translating Anthropological Research and Concepts Using Multimedia 2. Getting Knowledge from the Ivory Tower to the Street: Making Anthropology Matter 3. The Urgency of Now: Crafting and Editing Anthropological Knowledge in Real Time Part Two: The World Wide Web 4. Cool Enough to Make a Difference 5. PopAnth: The Conversation 6. SAPIENS: An Origins Story Part Three: Reimaging Public Spaces 7. Visualizing Immigrant Phoenix: An Urban Visual Ethnographic Collaborative 8. The Tale Is the Map: Virtual Reality Experiences in Anthropology 9. Creating Inclusive Public Space: Participatory Design Ethnography in a University Library 10. Extravagance Outside of Anthropology: How to Sell Analytic Induction to Entrepreneurs Part Four: Creatives 11. Rez-Colored Glasses: Disentangling Indigenous Lives from the Colonial Gaze 12. Sonic Anthropology: From Remixing Archives to Reimagining Cultures 13. Engaging a Wider Audience with Fiction Film 14. Let Us Do More than Hope: Comics, Complexity, and an Anthropology in Pictures and Words Contributors Index