The Past and Future of Applied Anthropology

GARDNER, Andrew (U Puget Sound) and CHECKER, Melissa
(CUNY) The Past and Future of Applied Anthropology. What 
integral elements might we discern from applied anthropology’s 
long and storied history? In this roundtable discussion, 
contributors endeavor to delineate and describe those elements by revisiting one or more of the specific projects, 
the mentors, or the ideological junctures they encountered 
in their own trajectory through the discipline. Asked to look 
both forward and backward, contributors speak to what most 
clearly illuminated the applied value of anthropology in their 
life experience, and by contemplating what our planetary 
future might portend, they consider how anthropology might 
be best equipped to both assess and address its challenges.
gardner@pugetsound.edu (F-62)