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Public anthropology finds company with many other movements in and out of academia today that struggle to open up dialogue on national and global issues and democratize decision-making on problems that most affect people's lives. Public anthropology is a popular emphasis in environmental anthropology where researchers examine contentious struggles and debates over key natural resources. In this paper, I highlight the challenges and predicaments I have faced while documenting an environmental problem in India. I condense these challenges into three kinds of engagements that involve the open-sourcing of science, resource nationalism and news reporting. I explain how these anthropological challenges and predicaments intersect with the goals of Indian river activists and experts as they aim to open up dialogue and decision-making on water issues.
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This special issue of India Review is about public anthropology: socially relevant, theoretically informed, and politically engaged ethnographic scholarship. Our editor and twelve contributors explore what happens when we preface anthropology with "public." We argue that if our goal is for anthropology to not be solely an extractive enterprise, but an ethnographic one in the spirit of exchange, then it must be an engaged endeavor. Yet, what is public anthropology and how is it done? Additionally, why is public anthropology worth pursuing now, and why in India? In this issue we explore these questions by trying to capture the energy of current anthropological work in India. We provide here a glimpse into how some archaeologists and cultural anthropologists are practicing and envisioning public anthropology.
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075320
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Until the 1980s, the secluded Tamil-speaking region of eastern Sri Lanka was of anthropological interest primarily because of its interspersed Hindu and Muslim communities and a unique matrilineal kinship and household system. Since then, however, the region has become a zone of conflict and ethnic terror between the Sri Lankan government and the Tamil Tiger rebels, and more recently it has suffered tragically from the December 2004 tsunami. This essay traces the effects of these changing fieldwork circumstances on the work of one ethnographer who has studied the region for three decades. Like much recent anthropology in Sri Lanka, this long-term ethnographic project seeks useful ways to address "public" issues of civil war and natural catastrophe while still pursuing the academic goals of basic anthropological research.
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