Public anthropology seems to remove anthropology from the ‘ivory towers’, which I find very attractive. I admit I was turned off a bit from anthropology earlier since it seemed like too much ‘navel-gazing’ to me, and the overall ‘insular’ attitude of my anthropology professors put me off as well – and of course I did not want to be a part of that ‘insularity’ by further studying the discipline ‘professionally’.

But this is more engaging, and I feel it to be much needed. A ‘new generation’ of anthropology, so to speak.