Before revision: Public anthropology , according to Robert Borofsky , a professor at Hawaii Pacific University, " demonstrates the ability of anthropology and anthropologists to effectively address problems beyond the discipline—illuminating larger social issues of our times as well as encouraging broad, public conversations about them with the explicit goal of fostering social change" (Borofsky 2004).
After revision: Public anthropology is defined by Robert Borofsky and Antonio De Lauri as "a collective aspiration shaped by generally shared values and intentions within significant sections of the discipline(2019, URL According to Borofsky, public anthropology " " demonstrates the ability of anthropology and anthropologists to effectively address problems beyond the discipline—illuminating larger social issues of our times as well as encouraging broad, public conversations about them with the explicit goal of fostering social change" (Borofsky 2004).