And Practice by Anthropologists. Development Theory and Anthropological Practice. And Practice in Environmental Anthropology. This NAPA Bulletin addresses the issues that have kept theory and practice in anthropology apart for many decades, and is an effort to heal this critical split in the discipline. It examines both the potential and actual relationship between theory and practice, reviewing what has been promised, and what has been realized.
Contributors argue for stronger engagement for the American anthropologist.
Such engagement will be ultimately successful if as a profession we see heuristic value in the multiple uses of anthropology, as an enhancement of present day efforts. Contributors argue that all anthropologists are practitioners, including those inside the academy, and thus the issues of relations between theoretical and practical knowledge are meaningful to everyone who calls him or herself and anthropologist.