Abstract
The use of applied ethnography is relatively new among National Park Service (NPS) programs compared to other academic disciplines that were incorporated by the NPS much earlier as part of the effort to fulfill its mission. Although anthropology had been part of the NPS for decades, it was represented only by archaeology, along with associated museology and curatorial functions. However in 1981, Dr. Douglas Scoville, himself an archaeologist, decided that an open position in anthropology should be filled by an ethnographer to represent cultural anthropological interests in park operations. Dr. Muriel "Miki" Crespi was the first cultural anthropologist hired to fill the new administrative position in the Washington office. For the next decade, Miki worked hard to secure positions for applied ethnographers to serve in the regional offices where program goals of ethnographic expertise and service could be implemented for parks in which there are peoples with traditional cultural affiliations.
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