Book Title: Anthropology as a Vocation
Subtitle: A Discipline for a Changing World
Edited by Lee Wilson; Gerhard Hoffstaedter; and Sally Babidge
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Book Description: Anthropology's future lies in vocational engagement: bridging theory and practice to address real-world crises across sectors, while renewing how we train the next generation of practitioners.
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Anthropology has long offered powerful tools for understanding complex human problems: from financial crises to technology design to public health emergencies. Yet despite this potential, the discipline too often remains on the margins of the conversations that matter most. This book asks why, and what can be done about it.
Drawing on examples from corporate ethnography to humanitarian response, the volume makes the case for a vocational anthropology that links craft to impact.
Conceived as a cumulative online resource, the book brings together practitioner interviews, reflections, and case studies to show what publicly engaged anthropology looks like in action and to rethink how we train the next generation to carry anthropological sensibilities to the people and into the spaces where they are needed most.
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Anthropology as a Vocation Copyright © 2026 by The University of Queensland is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.
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Anthropology as a Vocation Copyright © 2026 by The University of Queensland is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.