Edited by Patricia Higgins and Anthony Paredes

A publication of the Society for Applied Anthropology
ISBN 0-9642023-1-X


An exciting collection of some of the best articles from the first twenty years of Practicing Anthropology. Many selections come from the early volumes of the journal printed on newsprint and no longer easily accessible. All the articles were chosen for their enduring contribution to the history and practice of anthropology. Useful as a teaching aid or as a reference work, Classics of PA, provides a snapshot of the variegated scene of anthropologists at work in the final decades of the twentieth century.

Includes articles by:

Erve Chambers
Shirley Fiske
Patrick Garrow
Barbara Joans
Elliot Liebow
Phileo Nash
Stephen Schensul
Barbara Sibley
Richard Stoffle
M.G.Trend
Harry Wolcott
Alvin Wolfe

And many,many, more…

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