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This article is a personal account of the intertwining of one female anthropologist's professional and personal experience. It describes the process of composing a life that accommodated field research, marriage to a partner anthropologist, children in the field, professional service, and national and international applied research. It outlines the evolution of an approach to developing community-based research organizations that conduct applied ethnographic research for purposes of research, community education, policy change, and advocacy. This approach, which can be used in ethnic or substantively specific settings or in cross-ethnic and cross-national environments, fuses basic, applied, and cultural conservation research and material culture and is positioned as a model for community-based research in health, community development, and cultural conservation. The approach highlights the Hispanic Health Council and the Institute for Community Research as examples of such organizations, developing from the same roots but different in their orientation and actualization of research and social change. Each of these organizations is embedded in anthropological theory and practice, largely developed and supported by anthropologists. Both are based in Hartford, using innovative mixed methods research and working nationally and internationally. The paper concludes with lessons learned that apply to anthropology and across applied social sciences and to the development of career directions in applied anthropology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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