Reinventing and Reinvesting in the Local for Our Common Good: Selected Papers from the Annual Meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society, Huntington, West Virginia, April, 2016

A growing number of cultural anthropologists and others in allied disciplines are doing ethnographic fieldwork in the communities where they live and work. Essays in Reinventing and Reinvesting in the Local for Our Common Good describe an engaged local anthropology that contributes to the common good by informing social change and public policy.

The volume includes examples of citizen or student involvement in ethnographic research: Residents of a rural community were both subjects and coll...