[Our] ability to work between the remote past and the contemporary moment, the local and the global, the specific and the general - [this] is anthropology’s most enduring contribution to human understanding. - Adam Smith
Our uniquely skeptical, critical, and sensitive perspectives on the multiplicity of our humanity is sorely missing from important debates in our government. We need, now more than ever, anthropologically inquisitive minds to execute our government’s policies domestically and abroad. Our intellectual vocations need to be carried out from both the academy as well as within the private and public sector. Only then will our relevance make a difference. -Saul Mercado
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