Includes bibliographical references and index.

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Mediating Publics and Anthropology: An Introduction Simone Abram and Sarah Pink PART I: ANTHROPOLOGY IN THE PUBLIC MEDIA SPHERE Chapter 1. Doing Anthropology in Public: Examples from the Basque Country Margaret Bullen Chapter 2. The Perils of Public Anthropology? Quiescent Anthropology in Neo-Nationalist Scandinavia Peter Hervik Chapter 3. For a Creative Anthropological Image-Making: Reflections on Aesthetics, Relationality, Spectatorship and Knowledge in the Context of Visual Ethnographic Work in New Delhi, India Paolo Favero Chapter 4. A Language For Re-Generation: Boundary Crossing and Re-Formation at the Intersection of Media Ethnography and Theater Debra Spitulnik Vidali Chapter 5. Social Movements and Video Indigena in Latin America: Key Challenges for 'Anthropologies Otherwise' Juan Francisco Salazar PART II: PUBLIC ANTHROPOLOGY AND SOCIAL MEDIA Chapter 6. Anthropology by the Wire Matthew Durington and Samuel Gerald Collins Chapter 7. Public Anthropology in Times of Media Hybridity and Global Upheaval John Postill Chapter 8. Anthropological Publics and their Onlookers: The Dynamics of Multiple Audiences in the Blog SavageMinds.Org Alex Golub and Kerim Friedman Chapter 9. The Open Anthropology Cooperative: Towards an Online Public Anthropology Francine Barone and Keith Hart Notes on Contributors

Contemporary anthropologists' engagement with social & digital media simultaneously offers opportunities to disseminate work in new ways, while challenging scholars to move into unfamiliar collaborative domains & expose their research to new forms of scrutiny. This volume's contributors question whether a fresh public anthropology is emerging.