PUBLIC ANTHROPOLOGY UNBOUND

Public anthropology focuses on two senses of being public. First, it emphasizes the importance of speaking out to public audiences beyond the academy, bearing ethnographic witness to how life is lived beyond the borders of many readers’ experiences. Second, it considers the importance of making public the structural impediments within the academy that limit anthropologists from being a force for good in people’s lives around the world. Public Anthropology Unbound interviews university deans regarding this second sense of being public – asking them what steps they are taking to orient their schools toward more effectively empowering those beyond the academy to address the problems their societies face.