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  • MaryW commented on the word applied anthropology

    Under his leadership as chairperson (the more egalitarian term he used instead of chairman), the department was receiving international attention for launching the first master's program in applied anthropology in the world. Applied anthropology took academics out of the ivory tower and into the field, exploring ways in which they could apply their training to practical problems, from urban planning to public health. The master's program, which would begin in 1974, kept very much in line with my dad's history of social activism; at the same time, it was considered heretical by those who thought that anthros—as my dad and his colleagues referred to themselves—should stay in the classroom.
    David Kushner, Alligator Candy: A Memoir (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2016), ch. 6.

    (This was at the University of South Florida, in Tampa.)

    May 15, 2016