2025/09/16 by José Leonardo Santos · 2 voices · 1 citation
Social Sciences · #Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture #Higher Education Governance and Development
paper · doi:10.1080/08884552.2025.2551583
openalex publication_date 2025/09/16 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/20
In the wake of rapid micro, meso, and macro level changes, anthropologists struggle. From popular complaints alleging anthropology’s lack of utility, to expanding academic restrictions, to increased elimination of instructors and departments, challenges both frustrate and harm students, practitioners, and instructors. Acknowledging these difficulties, the author promotes an ethnographic solution. He summarizes his interactions within academic circles in the United States, then offers perspectives based on notions of kinship and cultural mediation. By approaching all anthropologists as kin and recognizing cultural gaps between ourselves and the public, transformative strategies emerge, emphasizing renewed relationships and roadmaps towards positive resolution.