Anthropology Put to Work

How do anthropologists work today and how will they work in future? While some anthropologists have recently called for a new "public" or "engaged" anthropology, profound changes have already occurred, leading to new kinds of work for a large number of anthropologists. The papers in this volume indicate that the new conditions of anthropological work require significant departures from standard principles, such as replacing ethnographic rapport with multiple forms of collaboration. The goal is to help graduate students and early-career scholars accept these changes without feeling something essential to anthropology has been lost.

Richard G. Fox is President Emeritus, Wenner-Gren Foundation and an Adjunct Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Les Fields is Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico.