Anthropology in Administration

Barnett, H.G. (1956). Anthropology in Administration. Evanston, IL: Barnett, Row, and Co. ISBN 978-0-598-61990-7.

Abstract: This short book offers to a scholar in another discipline, as well as to an administrator, a survey of the achievements and the controversial features of applied anthropology. Though it concentrates particularly on the work of anthropologists in cross-cultural contexts, and notably the administration of minority groups at home and peoples of dependent territories overseas, the general framework of discussion is relevant to other fields of application, as in industry, education, or social work. The author, a professor at the University of Oregon, is well qualified to give such a report. On the one hand, he is a theorist noted for his disciplined work in the culture change field: his recent volume on Innovation is an outstanding exercise in theoretical virtuosity. On the other, lie carried for two years the responsibilities of staff anthro- pologist in the United States Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, directing the work of a cadre of field anthropologists vis-a-vis both the administrative staff and the Micronesian people.

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DOI: 10.2307/2088893
MAG: 2333666738
CorpusID: 144844291
OpenAlex: W2065176643