Contemporary anthropologists' engagement with social and digital media simultaneously offers opportunities to disseminate work in new ways, while challenging scholars to move into unfamiliar collaborative domains and expose their research to new forms of scrutiny.

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 Indígena 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

“The importance of public anthropology has been growing around the world making this a timely edition which, ‘mark[s] a line in the sand about where we are today’  [This volume] provides a place to begin to discuss the different ways in which people are currently engaging in public anthropology, including their methods, types of media used, topics researched and blogs such as ‘Savage Minds.’ It has the potential to be a valuable resource in instigating discussions around what anthropology can do, should do and has the potential to communicate through being public.” · SITES – A Journal of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies “I am delighted that we have here a volume on ‘our’ frustrations, experiences, and hopes regarding media. If we are to better engage publics we need to keep all the balls identified in the introduction (public, anthropology, media, and engagement) in the air at the same time, which will continue to be a challenging endeavor. As suggested by the contributions in this volume, layers of frustrations are in need of serious consideration and deconstruction; this book is welcome as a step in that direction.” · Journal of Anthropological Research “For many reasons made clear in the volume, anthropologists are still not very good at, and reticent about, participating in the public sphere, but the contributors here are showing how it can be done, and others will hopefully join in their tentative steps.” · Anthropology Review Database “This volume explores the opportunities and obstacles that face anthropologists reaching out to wider publics through engagement with media industries, art, performance, blogging, social media, and open, cooperative sharing of material. Through a breadth of case studies, the authors offer a cautiously optimistic vision of the challenges and opportunities for public anthropological scholarship in the twenty-first century.”  ·  Mark Allen Peterson, Miami University “A timely collection of chapters probing the heart of contemporary anthropology and engaging with the position of anthropologists in a global society where non-scientific ‘experts’ dominate the public sphere. These fascinating case studies from all over the world offer reflections on what ‘public anthropology’ can mean.”  ·  Katrien Pype, KU Leuven University and University of Birmingham