Abstract
Editing this issue of Practicing about anthropologists working in Brazil has been an enlightening experience for us. We learned the particular ways in which Brazilian anthropologists from all subdisciplines deal with ethical and practical dilemmas in the practice of anthropology, as reflected in the questions below. We note that there is no consensus among Brazilian anthropologists about whether applied anthropology, as defined here in the U.S., even exists there. Some anthropologists noted the distinction in Brazil between a Sol Tax-inspired ‘action’ anthropology and ‘applied’ anthropology. In the former the commitment to engaged and activist anthropology seems to go beyond the bounds of what is generally seen in ‘mainstream’ applied anthropology in the US. Other Brazilian anthropologists stress their strong interest in public policy, and describe their engagement with policy issues in terms of ‘militant citizenship.’ Though we don't formally make an action-applied distinction in this country, the degree of engagement of individual anthropologists in Brazil travels along a continuum from application to advocacy to activism.
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