Abstract In March 2023, Vanuatu was struck by two category 4 tropical cyclones, dubbed Judy and Kevin, in rapid succession. As the planet heats up and extreme weather events become fiercer and more frequent, disaster response teams will face ever greater challenges to restore vital infrastructure and help the people living on Pacific islands to repair their homes and feed themselves. Based on the information gathered for this article using well-established anthropological techniques of in-depth open-ended interviews and long-term immersive fieldwork, we argue that effective responses to natural disasters may be strengthened by engaging more fully with local and traditional institutions, utilising the best available data and coordinating the efforts of more diverse stakeholders.

This special issue of Anthropology in Action focuses on the intersection of two equally important, and yet unequally researched, areas of anthropological inquiry: migration and childhood. In recent years, the mediatic attention to migration has led to an increased visibility of children and youth moving through transnational contexts, often with limited access to social and economic resources. Undoubtedly, the transnational movement of young people is far from a recent phenomenon. On the contrary, historically these individuals had more chances to successfully travel long distances in search of a more fulfilled life than their older counterparts. Migration – a movement of people, associated with hopes and prospects for a better life, but also driven by fears of violence and poverty – has always had a young face.

Abstract We discuss our work as members of the interdisciplinary University of Denver Ethnography Lab (DUEL) in creating communities of practice through which students, faculty, and community partners engage in anthropology in action aimed at contributing to social justice and public good efforts. We highlight our work supporting socially engaged ethnographies by students in Writing Program courses. We also explain DUEL's outreach work with community partners, including collaboration with Project Protect Food System Workers (PPFSW), a coalition promoting farmworkers' rights, and with a group of epidemiologists at the Colorado Department of Public Health and the Environment (CDPHE) in examining misrepresentation of minoritized groups in public health data. We showcase ways in which this ethnographic research has been presented not only in scholarly publications but also in articles aimed at public audiences, along with films, websites, podcasts, and digital exhibits. DUEL's experience may be relevant to other similar communities of practice.

This special issue of Anthropology in Action presents a collection of articles that reflect on and analyse the role of social science in epidemic response. The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed deep social and economic inequalities within and across countries which produce unequal COVID-19 outcomes. Researchers have long noted the connections between socioeconomic inequalities and infections, and there is growing recognition that epidemics are also social and political events (Bardosh et al. 2020). Anthropological and other social science research has contributed to epidemic response, through attention to cultural and politico-economic context, reframing community ‘resistance’, bolstering community engagement in preparedness and response, and informing response activities, including risk communication (Abramowitz 2017; Bardosh et al. 2020). Despite this, much of the work has been ad hoc and not systematically integrated into the systems of epidemic response, with the exception of the Centres d’Analyses des Sciences Sociales (CASS) in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). This special issue is timely, in that it builds on foundational work in social science and epidemic response, draws on tensions and experience from recent epidemics including COVID-19 and Ebola, and charts a way forward at both a theoretical and a practical level.

Anthropology in Action is always happy to hear from potential reviewers at all stages in their academic careers for books, films or other media.

Anthropology in Action is always happy to hear from potential reviewers at all stages in their academic careers, for books, films or other media. We currently have a number of books and video resources awaiting review. If you are interested in reviewing anything on the list below, please contact the reviews editor David Orr (d.orr@sussex.ac.uk).

Anthropology in Action is always happy to hear from potential reviewers at all stages in their academic careers, for books, films or other media. We currently have a number of books and video resources awaiting review. If you are interested in reviewing anything on the list below, please contact the reviews editor David Orr (d.orr@sussex.ac.uk).

Since the turn of the millennium, conceptual and practice-oriented shifts in global health have increasingly given emphasis to health indicator production over research and interventions that emerge out of local social practices, environments and concerns. In this special issue of Anthropology in Action, we ask whether such globalised contexts allow for, recognise and sufficiently value the research contributions of our discipline. We question how global health research, ostensibly inter- or multi-disciplinary, generates knowledge. We query ‘not-knowing’ practices that inform and shape global health evidence as influenced by funders’ and collaborators’ expectations. The articles published here provide analyses of historical and ethnographic field experiences that show how sidelining anthropological contributions results in poorer research outcomes for the public. Citing experiences in Latin America, Angola, Senegal, Nigeria and the domain of global health evaluation, the authors consider anthropology’s roles in global health.

Anthropology in Action is always happy to hear from potential reviewers at all stages in their academic careers. We currently have a number of books awaiting review. If you are interested in reviewing any of the books on the list below, please contact the reviews editor David Orr (d.orr@sussex.ac.uk). We welcome reviews of around 600 words for a single book, but we are also keen to include review articles comparing two or more works, for which the word length is negotiable. Please also be aware that we can request recent publications (within the last year) from publishers, so do feel free to let us know of any books that you would like to review within the field of applied anthropology, and we will do our best to get them for you. Also note that publishers routinely send pdf or e-copies of publications rather than hard copies.

Anthropology in Action is always happy to hear from potential reviewers at all stages in their academic careers. We currently have a number of books awaiting review. If you are interested in reviewing any of the books on the list below, please contact the reviews editor David Orr (d.orr@sussex.ac.uk). We welcome reviews of around 600 words for a single book, but we are also keen to include review articles comparing two or more works, for which the word length is negotiable. Please also be aware that we can request recent publications (within the last year) from publishers, so do feel free to let us know of any books that you would like to review within the field of applied anthropology, and we will do our best to get them for you. Also note that publishers routinely send pdf or e-copies of publications rather than hard copies.

We are delighted to announce that Anthropology in Action (AiA) will be published as an open access journal as of 2018. Thanks to the generous support that we have received from a global network of libraries as part of the Knowledge Unlatched Select programme, there are no submission charges or article-processing charges (APCs) for authors of articles published under this arrangement. The initial funding is for three years (2018-2021), and during this time we will also make the backfiles of the journal freely available. This is an exciting moment not just for the journal but for its authors, as it offers them a great opportunity to further enhance the reach of their articles. We greatly appreciate the support of Knowledge Unlatched and its Title Selection Committee in choosing AiA and would like to express our thanks to the supporting institutions whose collective resources have removed the financial burden of open access from the journal's authors.

This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedited version of an article published in Anthropology in Action. The definitive publisher-authenticated version Andersen, R.S., Nichter, M. & Risor, M.B. (2017). Introduction. Sensations, Symptoms and Healthcare Seeking. Anthropology in Action. 24(1), 1-5 is available online at: https://doi.org/10.3167/aia.2017.240101 .

Despite the atrocities against life and dignity of man in Europe during the 20th century, man has not been destroyed, rather, he has always been reborn strongly. Nevertheless, at present reigns in the old continent a great confusion about the characteristics and meaning of the human condition. The author, starting from the biblical category of «image of God», proposes and develops an «anthropology in action» that helps to illuminate the real features of human person. From this anthropologic framework, he also suggests some implications for education in the european social life.

This special issue of Anthropology in Action collects essays arising from the 4th Post-graduate Conference of the Royal Anthropological Institute, held at Brunel University (London) on 3–4 September 2014. The event aimed to explore a variety of perspectives concerning the production and the ownership of anthropological knowledge, including issues of authority and ethical responsibility. We also welcomed reflections on the opening of new interstitial fieldsites in between the structured components of anthropological research. Our interest focused on the dilemmas arising from the definition of the field itself, in the guise of the epistemological delimitation of its boundaries and how these affect the relational world within it. We focused on the co-dependence between these factors and on the influence of increasing interconnectedness through advanced and progressively widespread communication technologies (cf. Kelty 2009).

Ref 2014 and Impact: Reading the Runes for Anthropology in Action

In Search of America's MIAs: Forensic Anthropology in Action

I am pleased to present five articles in this special issue of Anthropology in Action. They show a lively, challenging and engaged set of interventions that cross social and applied anthropology boundaries, doing so through combined arts health practices. That many of them take place in Northern Ireland and are propelled by anthropology graduates is an additional boon to a challenging and economically deprived part of the U.K. Three – Raw, McCaffery, Zeindlinger – were originally presented at the Arts Care 21st anniversary conference held in Belfast, 'Sustainable Creativity in Healthcare', May 2012. They represent work by publicly engaged anthropologists, a number living, working and practising in Northern Ireland. Other presenters from the conference could not join us but were also anthropologists practising anthropo - anthropologically informed community-relations work in Northern Ireland on deprived and segregated estates(Emma Graham) and in creative dance choreography with special needs and third-age performers (Lauren Guyer). Not so 'half-baked' applied anthropology, to challenge Lucy Mair's (1969: 8) original castigation of such intervention work.

The last ASA Network of Applied Anthropologists (APPLY & Anthropology in Action) meeting was held at the IUAES Conference (2013) at the University of Manchester. This meeting was and is, to my mind, an important one for a couple of reasons. Hosted by Dr Jonathan Skinner (Roehampton), it involved looking at the ways in which anthropological knowledge may be used in a corporate environment as well as produced in fieldwork on alternative tourism and migrant leisure.

"Our work is about trying to create democratic learning spaces":An Interview with Angie Hart, Community University Partnership Programme, University of Brighton Graham Crow (bio) and Angie Hart Angie Hart is the academic director of the award-winning Community University Partnership Programme at the University of Brighton. She is also professor of child, family and community health in the School of Nursing and Midwifery in the Faculty of Health and Social Science. She teaches professional courses for health and social care practitioners and undertakes participatory research into inequalities in health and social care in relation to children and families. She currently has a number of resilience-focused research projects under way. Professor Hart is a child and family therapist, and until August 2008 she worked part-time as a research-practitioner in the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS), Sussex Partnership NHS Trust, Brighton. She worked both in a specialist team supporting fostered and adopted children and in a CAMHS clinic located in a socially and economically deprived area of Brighton. As the adoptive parent of three children from the care system, she has much experience herself as a user of both statutory and voluntary health and social care services. Hart has published widely on health and social care services to disadvantaged children, their families, and their supporters, especially in relation to fostering and adoption, midwifery and health visiting, and the concept of resilience. She has also published her work on the development of community-university partnership programs. Her current work includes developing a series of communities of practice, in [End Page 125] collaboration with a local charity. This project involves working with groups of parents and practitioners to implement and develop Resilient Therapy. Hart's degrees are in philosophy and social anthropology from the Universities of Sussex, Cambridge, and Oxford, and she has a postgraduate diploma in psychotherapeutic counseling from the University of Sussex. She has worked as a research collaborator and project manager on many multi-disciplinary research projects, some commissioned by major United Kingdom government agencies, such as the Department of Health and the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). More information about Angie Hart and her work can be found at http://www.brighton.ac.uk/cupp/contact-cupp/cupp-team/72-angie-hart.html and at http://www.boingboing.org.uk/. See http://www.theasa.org/networks/apply.shtml for more about applied anthropology in Britain. She is interviewed here by Graham Crow, deputy director of the ESRC National Centre for Research Methods and professor of sociology at the University of Southampton. Crow: To what extent did the applied aspect of anthropology influence your decision to become an anthropologist? Hart: When I started off doing my anthropology postgraduate training, my first degree was in philosophy and European Studies at Sussex University, and one of the things I was interested in was cultural difference. I didn't really get much opportunity to explore it in that degree, but I loved learning different languages—I'd lived in different countries, so that aspect of anthropology appealed to me to study at masters level. So I applied to do an MPhil at Cambridge in the social anthropology department. The applied anthropology in Britain at that time, the late 1980s—there wasn't any applied aspect in anthropology postgraduate training that I knew of; it was very much conventional academic research. But during the course of that year and the subsequent three years doing a PhD in social anthropology at Oxford I was part of a group of people who were involved in the early days of what we called Anthropology in Action, what is now Apply, the applied anthropology organization. So it came the other way round. There were very few people I knew who were applying anthropology. They were working in NGOs. Tom Selwyn was doing research on tourism that had an applied [End Page 126] aspect to it, but really it was a very minor discourse, a counterdiscourse to what was going on in mainstream anthropology in some contexts, for sure. Funny, because now I see that Apply has become part of the mainstream Association of Social Anthropologists. You couldn't have imagined that back...

Anthropology in Action is always happy to hear from potential reviewers at all stages in their academic careers. We welcome reviews of around 500 words for a single book, but we are also keen to include reviews comparing two or more works, for which the word length is negotiable. We currently have a number of books awaiting review. If you are interested in reviewing any of the books on the list below, please contact the reviews editor, Michaela Benson (M.Benson@bristol.ac.uk). However, please also be aware that we can request recent publications (within the last year) from publishers, so please feel free to let us know of any books that you would like to review within the field of applied anthropology, and we will do our best to get them for you.