Self or grant funded. Applied work retained the multidisciplinary focus neglected by academics. Cultural relativism, to hopefully result in beneficial, or at least not harmful, change. Power is distinct from doing.
AAs have no power, they use informal persuasion.
Tax neglected multidisciplinary and system approaches. Tax acknowledged such risks. Need to explain spaces between what we know and what we do with knowledge. AA is field of inquiry concerned with the relation betw anth knowledge and its used in the world beyond anthropology. Reputation of applied anthropology began with JW Powell in 1870s, then on through 1930s, WW II, etc.