Table of Contents

Preface
Andrew Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart

Introduction: Anthropology and Consultancy—Ethnographic Dilemmas and Opportunites
Andrew Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart

Chapter 1. On Knowing the Baining and Other Minor Ethnic Groups of East New Britain
Marta A. Rohatynskyj

Chapter 2. From Athropologist to Government Officer and Back Again
Richard Scaglion

Chapter 3. Environmental Non-governmental Organizations and the Nature of Ethnographic Inquiry
Paige West

Chapter 4. The Politics of Accountability: An Institutional Analysis of the Conservation Movement in Papua New Guinea
John Richard Wagner

Chapter 5. Where Anthropologists Fear to Tread: Notes and Queries on Anthropology and Consultancy, Inspired by a Fieldwork Experience
Lorenzo Brutti

Chapter 6. Taking Care of Culture: Consultancy, Anthropology, and Gender Issues
Martha Macintyre

Notes on Contributors
Index

About the Author

Pamela Stewart is Research Associate at the University of Pittsburgh. She works on human identities and life histories, farming practices and national identity, patient/physician communication, religious change and sorcery, forms of violence and its impact. Her areas of interest include the U.S., Europe, and Papua New Guinea.

Reviews

“I do recommend this volume to anthropologists. This collection would be appropriate for training social or cultural anthropologists… Several of these cases are well written, insightful, and instructive.” • Journal of Anthropological Research