Applied anthropology in Guatemala challenges traditional distinctions and faces challenges in multi-cultural and politically complex contexts, addressing racism, economic inequality, and political discontent.

Making Applied Anthropology Relevant in Contemporary Guatemala

Applied anthropology faces challenges in defining subjects, interdisciplinarity, expert status, and integrating ethnographic methods in development research, but the discipline's resurgence signals exciting times for anthropology.

Anthropologists only need apply: challenges of applied anthropology

Anthropology can serve as a vehicle for a new "democratic humanism" by broadening cross-cultural understandings and exploring the potential of other civilizations.

Anthropology Confronts the Problems of the Modern World

This paper explores how to design anthropological inquiry strategies, focusing on ethical formation and the remediation of truth and conduct breakdowns, using case studies of Salman Rushdie and Gerhard Richter.

Designs on the Contemporary: Anthropological Tests

Paul Rabinow and George E. Marcus discuss the need for redesigned pedagogical practices and collaborative initiatives to advance anthropological research and understanding of contemporary events and processes.

Designs for an Anthropology of the Contemporary

Anthropology can guide local development initiatives by reframing development issues and suggesting new logics of action for change, as demonstrated in a North West Tasmania, Australia, program.

Towards an Anthropology of Local and Regional Development Practice

European applied anthropology needs to shift from a descriptive discipline to an applied discipline shaping the future, particularly in areas not traditionally addressed by anthropologists.

Applied Anthropology in Europe: Historical Obstacles, Current Situation, Future Challenges

Anthropology faces four challenges in today's media ecosystem, two related to theory and two related to ethnography, and must address these to remain successful in the field.

Four challenges from anthropology's current meta

Indigenous knowledge studies offer new opportunities for anthropology in development, addressing challenges in cross-cultural communication and political dimensions while engaging with people in novel ways.

The Development of Indigenous Knowledge

Anthropology, the science of man, has a significant practical value in understanding society's problems, but its practical application is often overlooked by the general public.

Anthropology and Modern Life

Modernization studies in evolutionary anthropology can lead to a richer understanding of human behavior and biology, encompassing both ultimate and proximate explanations for behavior across a wide range of human societies.

Modernizing Evolutionary Anthropology

Anthropological knowledge faces challenges from globalization and localization, with new challenges for rural research and a need for a more global perspective on local issues.

The future of anthropological knowledge

Recent anthropological thinking has challenged the traditional focus on localized societies and cultures, examining the interplay between identity, place, power, and resistance in a globalized world.

Culture, Power, Place: Explorations in Critical Anthropology

Anthropology's history and current challenges suggest it may not be as innovative or creative in engaging with contemporary problems as it could be.

Disciplinary-Professional Relations in an Era of Anthropological Engagement

This special issue explores the connections between difference, belonging, and exclusion in contemporary southern and East Africa, aiming to move beyond the worn primordial/essentialist vs. instrumentalist/constructionist divide in anthropological discourse on difference.

Introduction to Anthropology Southern Africa special issue on ‘Engaging Difference: Perspectives on belonging and exclusion in contemporary southern and East Africa’

Anthropology offers insights into culture and society through individual social experiences, challenging the distinction between subjectivity and objectivity and reaffirming the vital role of fieldwork in understanding the world.

Social Experience and Anthropological Knowledge

The American Anthropologist's first Contemporary Issues Forum explores anthropological practice and discourse in the context of ethnic resurgence and (neo)colonial disempowerment.

Contested Pasts and the Practice of Anthropology

This book challenges traditional anthropological approaches and suggests that contemporary artists and anthropologists can learn from each other's practices, suggesting productive new directions for both fields.

Contemporary Art and Anthropology

Critical anthropology faces challenges in maintaining its potency in a complex socio-political context, as power, subjectivity, and socio-economic contexts increasingly influence its practice.

REVISITING POSITIONALITY IN CRITICAL ANTHROPOLOGY:

Anthropological practices can help overcome alienation, loneliness, and violence, but their impossibility and fragility require an existential event on the edge between possibility and impossibility.

The anthropological practice as an impossible possibility

How do we apply anthropological insights to contemporary issues and challenges?

These studies suggest that applying anthropological insights to contemporary issues involves addressing racism, economic inequality, political discontent, ethical formation, and development initiatives, while also redefining interdisciplinary approaches and integrating indigenous knowledge.