Towards an Environmental Anthropology
1995 ◽
Vol 17
(4)
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pp. 29-31
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Keyword(s):
With more than half of the anthropological community working outside of academia and a growing number of academic practitioners focusing their intellectual energies and efforts on the definition, analysis, and resolution of nonacademic problems, the social meaning and impact of our discipline has changed. Our endeavors are increasingly lodged in the problems of humanity, our intent to better the human condition. Anthropological praxis—what we do, how we do what we do, why we do it, and the effects of our work—represents the critical and controversial issues of our discipline today.