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By working with underserved communities, anthropologists may play a larger role in democratizing society. The growth of disparities challenges anthropology to be used for social justice. This engaged stance moves the application of anthropological theory, methods, and practice toward action and activism. However, this engagement also moves anthropologists away from traditional roles of observation toward participatory roles that become increasingly involved with those communities or social groupings being studied. The chapters in this book suggest the roles anthropologists are able to play to bring us closer to a public anthropology characterized as engagement. Sam Beck is Senior Lecturer in the College of Human Ecology and Director of the Urban Semester Program of Cornell University. His publications include __Ethnicity and Nationalism in Southeastern Europe__ (1981, ed with John W. Cole) and __Manny Almeida's Ringside Lounge: The Cape Verdean Struggle for their Neighborhood__ (1992). Carl A. Maida is Professor in the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at the University of California, Los Angeles. His publications include __Sustainability and Communities of Place__ (2007), __Pathways through Crisis: Urban Risk and Public Culture__ (2008), __Children and Disasters__ (1999), and __The Crisis of Competence: Transitional Stress and the Displaced Worker__ (1990). Introduction : Toward Engaged Public Anthropology / Sam Beck And Carl A. Maida -- Expert And Lay Knowledge In Pacoima : Public Anthropology And Essential Tension In Community-based Participatory Action Research / Carl A. Maida -- Norwegian Anthropologists Study Minorities At Home : Political And Academic Agendas / Thomas Hylland-eriksen -- Dow Chemical's Knowledge Factories : Action Anthropology Against Michigan's Company Town Culture / Brian Mckenna -- Producing Knowledge For Public Use : New Challenges In The U.s. Academy / Judith Goode -- Notes On A Dialogical Anthropology / Udi Mandel Butler -- Mapping Solidarity : How Public Anthropology Provides Guidelines For Advocacy Networks / Raúl Acosta -- Lessons From Vicos / Billie Jean Isbell. Edited By Sam Beck, Carl A. Maida. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Contents 6 Introduction: Toward Engaged Anthropology 8 Expert and Lay Knowledge in Pacoima: Public Anthropology and an Essential Tension in Community-based Participatory Action Research 22 Norwegian Anthropologists Study Minorities at Home: Political and Academic Agendas 43 Dow Chemical's Knowledge Factories: Action Anthropology against Michigan's Company Town Culture 62 Producing Knowledge for Public Use: New Challenges in the U.S. Academy 82 Notes on a Dialogical Anthropology 106 Mapping Solidarity: How Public Anthropology Provides Guidelines for Advocacy Networks 125 Lessons from Vicos 139 Notes on Contributors 165 Index 169