PA Comments

Over 100 practicing and applied anthropologists met at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association in Chicago and agreed to establish a new unit of the A practicing anthropology. It was decided that the unit will represent and serve all four sub-fields of anthropology. Goals of the unit will include: 1) to represent the needs of practicing anthropologists within the AAA, 2) to provide a network for communication among practicing anthropologists, 3) to disseminate information on employment and related issues in practicing anthropology, 4) to support, to the extent possible, the activities of already existing regional and special interest groups of practicing anthropologists, 5) to educate students of anthropology in the skills necessary for non-academic anthropological work, 6) to develop new strategies to serve the needs of practicing anthropologists.