Aroland Is Our Home : An Incomplete Victory in Applied Anthropology
New York: AMS Press, 1986.
Hardcover. Very Good with no dust jacket. Item #15532
ISBN: 0404626025
Library stamps/marks/labels/slip, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover.; "What then distinguishes applied research? In an applied study, the anthropologist must design and conduct his inquiry so that it explicitly tries to meet his client's wants and needs. This was my intention when I worlked for the people of Aroland, not to become their champion, but to provide the community and the government with information they both needed to make meaningful decisions about land. A word about the structure and contents of the book is also in order. It is divided in four parts. Part One focuses on what the absence of land tenure means at Aroland, how I became involved with the community, the difficulties that I suspected were prefenting the people from owning land, and how I set out to help them. Part Two contains an ethnographic description of Aroland, its history, demographic characteristics, kin ship and friendship networks, and economic and political organization. Part Three identifies the types of tenure that the residents can possess, the ways in which land ownership likely would affect their lives, and the ways in which they can try to acquire tenure from the government. The fourth part ... [focuses] on the reaction that the people of Aroland had to my work and the negotiations that took place between the community and the government after it was completed. As such, the contents are more personal than analytical, and hopefully will provide some insight into what is involved when an anthropologist tries to help a native community acquire land - a process that no doubt will continue to evolve as native people demand that their rights to the land be respected." - Preface. ; AMS Studies in Anthropology; Ex-Library; Vol. 2; xiv, 185 pages.
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