STREAM 3 MATERIAL CULTURE AND ECOLOGY: TOPICS IN PUBLIC ANTHROPOLOGY / Claudia Campeanu (Bucharest) & Magda Craciun (Bucharest)

This stream introduces a more publically oriented anthropology through lectures, concrete examples, and practical exercises of disseminating anthropological knowledge to wider publics. The lectures reiterate the relevance of anthropological thought and practice in the diversified Europe of the 21st century. Moreover, the lectures explore the notion of the ‘Public’ and detail the interrelated practices of public anthropology, engaged anthropology, applied anthropology and participatory action research. The examples of how anthropologists engage wider publics are taken from research domains that the convenors of this stream are most familiar with, namely material culture and ecology. The exercises enable the practical employment of these notions and examples, and the development of a critical perspective on their uses. Students are required to produce their own materials for a wider audience, in whichever format they feel more comfortable with, from written to audio and visual materials