Using Anthropology in a World on the Move
1985; Society for Applied Anthropology; Volume: 44; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.17730/humo.44.3.c76h248731727631
ISSN1938-3525
Autores Tópico(s)Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography
ResumoTHE SOCIETY FOR APPLIED ANTHRO~O=OGY does me great honor in its gift of the Malinowski Award for 1985. It is humbling to find myself associated with the previous recipients of the award who have done so much to demonstrate that anthropology is more than an academic discipline or a literary conceit. It is some indication of how close-knit the company of anthropologists has been that I have known, at least slightly, all save two of the previous recipients. A number played a major role in shaping my own career and so perforce that of students who later worked with me. With Edward Spicer (1 976) and Alexander Leighton (1 984) I shared the experience of Poston, one of the camps where Japanese-Americans and their parents were interned during World War 11, the beginning of my concern for the indecency of forced resettlement, whether this be for what is known as development or because of the even greater indecency of war. That concern led to my involvement in a major study of the Gwembe Tonga who occupied what was to become the Lake Kariba Basin and were sacrificed so that a hydro-electric plant could be built to empower industrialization within Central Africa. From that study my colleague, Thayer Scudder, has gone on to create a general theory dealing with reactions to uprooting and stages of readjustment (Scudder and Colson 1982). His work as a consultant advising on the problems associated with resettlement brought him recognition at the 1984 meetings of the American Anthropological Association when he became the first recipient of its Solon Kimball Prize for Public and Applied Anthropology. A further spin-off of that Poston experience may be the recent founding ofa Center for the Study of Migration and Resettlement, the work of a group of graduate students at Berkeley who are concerned with what is happening to Laotian, Vietnamese, and Central
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