Anthropology in Action

Editor: Christine McCourt, City University London

Published in association with the Association for Anthropology in Action

Anthropology in Action is a peer-reviewed journal publishing key articles, commentaries, research reports, and book reviews that deal with the use of anthropology in all areas of policy and practice. The journal provides a forum for debate and analysis of anthropological themes. Recent themes have included identity and movement, anthropology in Denmark, the effects of ethics, and anthropology and activism.

Subjects covered by the journal include organisations, HIV/AIDS research, new reproductive technologies, the rights of indigenous peoples, community care and social policy, health, medicine and suffering, education and government policy, museums, place and space, management, ethnicity and violence, and overseas development.

Subjects: Applied Anthropology

Current Issue

Volume 18 • Issue 3 • 2011

Special Issue on Anthropology of Welfare
Guest Editors: Susanne Langer and Susanne Hojlund

Introduction: An Anthropology of Welfare: Journeying towards the Good Life
Susanne Langer and Susanne Hojlund

ARTICLES

Securing Intergenerational Kin Relationships and a House of One's Own: Muslim's Ways of Ageing Well in Kerala, India
Willemijn de Jong

Welfare and Self Care: Institutionalised Visions for a Good Life in Danish Day-care Centres
Eva Gullov

Walking, Welfare and the Good City
Tom Hall and Robin Smith