Research On American Public Anthropology

Public Anthropology emerged in the late 1990 s, and son become a new trend of American and the international anthropology in the 21 st century. Public anthropology combines the methods and means of applied and practicing anthropology,engaged anthropology, and collaborative anthropology. It advocates to adapt to today’s globalization and social conditions, so that anthropology could realize its value and potential in the new era. It emphasizes the social responsibility of anthropological studies, and advocates anthropologists get out of the pure academic study, disseminate the knowledge of anthropology to the public, improve public influence, focus on social concerns,thus promote social justice, and improve people’s life.It also opposes the pure objective stance from the practical social problems of academic research, and a gainst the academic-production oriented work from the pure academic journals and acad emic clique.Therefore,academic circles began to criticize series of college work of anthr opology and challenge the existing system of college departments related to the research and the funding and review mechanism, and explore a innovative way of the anthropolo gical knowledge production,dissemination,and the researching approaches of public ant hropology. For a long time, the anthropology participating in and solving the social prob lem has been on the brink of orthodox academic research, but public anthropology is co mmitted to promoting transformation of it.However,Public anthropology is not yet matu re.It is still in the stage of continuously explore and reflect on, but its ideas and methods of innovation will bring anthropology a great change, and promote the orientation of an thropology.With great hope,this article tries to analysis, define and comb the "public ant hropology", and promote China’s emphasis on public anthropology.Anthropology and E thnology,in China,should also develop thinking,but not stick to traditional research iss ues and the limitation of college, and play its value in a broader space and influence, an d constantly promote the communication with the international anthropology.