Beschreibung:
This review offers a sampling of the kinds of public projects anthropologists launched in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, and it reflects on some of the ways in which that event has had a profound and lasting effect on the public aspects of our discipline. Rather than reviewing all of the public roles that anthropologists played following 9/11, we echo the deeply personal nature of the event by offering a selection of first-person reflections from anthropologists whose work was especially touched by the disaster. As readers will note, these accounts run the gamut from personal to intellectual reflection. Ultimately, our hope is that they highlight the unexpectedly wide range and depth of ways in which the cataclysmic events of September 11, 2001, have altered our lives as both public scholars and global citizens.