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This article is a personal account of the intertwining of one female anthropologist's professional and personal experience. It describes the process of composing a life that accommodated field research, marriage to a partner anthropologist, children in the field, professional service, and national and international applied research. It outlines the evolution of an approach to developing community‐based research organizations that conduct applied ethnographic research for purposes of research, community education, policy change, and advocacy. This approach, which can be used in ethnic or substantively specific settings or in cross‐ethnic and cross‐national environments, fuses basic, applied, and cultural conservation research and material culture and is positioned as a model for community‐based research in health, community development, and cultural conservation. The approach highlights the Hispanic Health Council and the Institute for Community Research as examples of such organizations, developing from the same roots but different in their orientation and actualization of research and social change. Each of these organizations is embedded in anthropological theory and practice, largely developed and supported by anthropologists. Both are based in Hartford, using innovative mixed methods research and working nationally and internationally. The paper concludes with lessons learned that apply to anthropology and across applied social sciences and to the development of career directions in applied anthropology.

Science and technology, as rational approaches to problem solving, are driving forces in the promotion of democracy at home and abroad. Science based decision-making is increasingly global as countries share technology, research results, and engage in joint studies on common problems. The widening rift between global wealth and poverty diminishes for many the opportunity for exposure to science, technology and social science based decision-making on issues that directly affect them. This paper outlines a model for democratizing science by utilizing the interactive tools of the social sciences in a process that enables information-marginalized people to engage with the language, methods and results of social science for purposes of community empowerment and voice in science policy. The paper offers examples of approaches to implementation, citing various forms of research partnerships with communities, and discusses challenges including ethical considerations, the conflict between "local" and science-based knowledges and power differentials in practice.

This collection of individually authored chapters provides cutting-edge approaches to ethnography. Specialized Ethnographic Methods: A Mixed Methods Approach complements the basic inventory of ethnographic data collection tools presented in Book 3 with a number of important additional approaches to conducting ethnography. These include defining and collecting cultural artifacts, collecting secondary and archival data, cultural sorting and comparing methods, spatial research and analysis, network research and analysis, use of multimedia strategies for the collection of ethnographic data, ways t

Analysis and Interpretation of Ethnographic Data: A Mixed Methods Approach,Second Edition, is a comprehensive treatment of analysis strategies used inethnographic research, addressing the "crunching" and manipulation of bothqualitative and quantitative ethnographic data

.cs95E872D0{text-align:left;text-indent:0pt;margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0pt}.cs5EFED22F{color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-weight:normal; font-style:normal; }.csA62DFD6A{color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-weight:normal; font-style:italic; }This first volume of the Ethnographer's Toolkit provides a practical, straightforward introduction to ethnography and ethnographic practice to the student and novice fieldworker

This article describes the process of creating and maintaining alliances to address the health and well‐being of older adults. These relationships, that we call "living alliances," are developed and nurtured through long‐term relationships with individuals and organizations from across diverse sectors of communities in which we work, and very often live. Utilizing brief case examples of research conducted by the Institute for Community Research (Hartford, CT), in collaboration with local and national partners on topics of concern to older adults, we present a history of the development of specific alliances and how they were implemented. These provide concrete examples of the alliance building process, the challenges faced, and how an initial set of associations has grown into a dynamic network of alliances that we can draw on to conduct community‐based partnership research. We also include a discussion of lessons learned in the processes of building and sustaining these living alliances.