Auto-ethnographies

"How has the "business" of higher education affected the environment in which academics work? Who should be able to hold anthropologists ethically responsible - the research institution that sponsors the fieldwork or the community of people being studied? What happens when academics step out of the ivory tower and into the public realm? Why, and how, do some anthropologists come undone by the challenges of the academy?" "These are some of the questions posed in this collection of essays. Accessibly written, ethnographically grounded, and theoretically informed, this volume faces contentious…