Open Thread: Anthropology with Purpose?

Here is where you, the readers, browsers, spies, and visitors to this site can have your say.  What is the purpose of anthropology?  Who should anthropologists engage with?  What audiences?  What social issues should they explore?  What themes?  What's the point of anthropology for YOU?  Feel free to post something as long or short as you wish.  Be creative, challenging, provocative--whatever.  You can post your name, or keep yourself anonymous, that's up to you. 

Reader Responses: The archaeological issue (Open Thread)

So what's the deal?  Are the disciplines of archaeology and anthropology compatible?  Are they even related?  Should anthropologists and archaeologists cut their losses and go their separate ways, or should they just get the band back together and move on with life?  Tell us how it is, or how it should be...

Open Thread: The Tourism Issue

Ok, this is where you--the readers of this site--get to take part in the discussion.  This is where you can post your reactions, corrections, theories...or pictures from your last trip to Skull Rock.  Whatever.  This is a blank slate.  Go for it. 

Open Thread: So what's this anthropology thing all about anyway?

This is where you can add your own 2 cents (or more) about what anthropology is all about. Since this is an open thread, go for it. Tell us why you're doing anthropology, where you want to go with it, and what it means to you. Talk about how it's the most amazing discipline ever, or tell us why you finally kicked anthropology to the curb to pursue the study of neoclassical economic theory. Hey, it happens. In order to figure out what anthropology is all about we need to hear numerous voices. Anyway, let it roll...