Though applied anthropology is a topic under a wide array of debate, the basic fundamental elements to it is simply choosing a subject of study, participant observation, and reinterpretation. Applied anthropology first involved a topic that can be considered relevant to humans in anyway and can be a factor that brings about greater change to the community or humanity as a whole.
Despite the fact that it is commonly misconceptualized that is must mean to a “3rd world tribe and their backward ways” that is often nowaday not the case and it can even be something as close to home as homelessness (Zimmerman). At first glance homelessness doesn’t actively seem to be a topic that would be suitable for something like applied anthropology but upon …show more content…
The presentations clearly show a divergence from the stereotypical visions of how anthropology generally studied what was deemed non westernized civilizations or cultures. Paul Mullins studies a different culture, but he did not have to travel deep into the depths of a brazilian jungle to do so, rather he turned to the urban jungle that was Indianapolis and conducted research on the invisible color line and how neighborhoods were deconstructed and the history that still lies within them from a mixed approach of ethnography and archaeology. Mullins learned stories and produced valid information while his interest were nearly the exact opposite of the stereotype anthropology holds. “Today that African American neighbourhood has been completely materially displaced, uprooted for parking lots and a scatter of brutal modernist buildings that make up the campus of Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis (IUPUI)” (Mullins 514). These anthropologist are more broad in their interest and instead of trying to reveal and parade “the savages’” culture, they are more interested in trying communicate some things humanity sometimes doesn’t want to remember but ought …show more content…
It brings to light issues that have solutions or if anything issues that need to be looked at again. Yet it does indeed differ from academic anthropology, that can be somewhat old school in comparison. Trained to be more objective than engaged, to focus on more traditional topics of study, and include intensive reading and scientific documentation, from what 's presented academic anthropology isn’t brought up like applied anthropology is today. This can also be because the ultimate settings these anthropologist will end up in differ too, a university generally versus a for hire odd job or corporation. And though academic was mainly based on the ethnocentric us and them view, it is as well changing and digressing from its caricature as
Despite the fact that it is commonly misconceptualized that is must mean to a “3rd world tribe and their backward ways” that is often nowaday not the case and it can even be something as close to home as homelessness (Zimmerman). At first glance homelessness doesn’t actively seem to be a topic that would be suitable for something like applied anthropology but upon …show more content…
The presentations clearly show a divergence from the stereotypical visions of how anthropology generally studied what was deemed non westernized civilizations or cultures. Paul Mullins studies a different culture, but he did not have to travel deep into the depths of a brazilian jungle to do so, rather he turned to the urban jungle that was Indianapolis and conducted research on the invisible color line and how neighborhoods were deconstructed and the history that still lies within them from a mixed approach of ethnography and archaeology. Mullins learned stories and produced valid information while his interest were nearly the exact opposite of the stereotype anthropology holds. “Today that African American neighbourhood has been completely materially displaced, uprooted for parking lots and a scatter of brutal modernist buildings that make up the campus of Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis (IUPUI)” (Mullins 514). These anthropologist are more broad in their interest and instead of trying to reveal and parade “the savages’” culture, they are more interested in trying communicate some things humanity sometimes doesn’t want to remember but ought …show more content…
It brings to light issues that have solutions or if anything issues that need to be looked at again. Yet it does indeed differ from academic anthropology, that can be somewhat old school in comparison. Trained to be more objective than engaged, to focus on more traditional topics of study, and include intensive reading and scientific documentation, from what 's presented academic anthropology isn’t brought up like applied anthropology is today. This can also be because the ultimate settings these anthropologist will end up in differ too, a university generally versus a for hire odd job or corporation. And though academic was mainly based on the ethnocentric us and them view, it is as well changing and digressing from its caricature as