Four challenges from anthropology's current meta

An examination of American anthropology from 1974 to 2024 shows that the discipline faces novel challenges in today's meta, or media ecosystem: two challenges facing theory and two facing ethnography. To remain successful, anthropology must meet these challenges.

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An examination of American anthropology from 1974 to 2024 reveals new challenges facing the discipline in today's meta or media ecosystem, specifically two challenges in theory and two challenges in ethnography. Anthropology must address these challenges in order to sustain its success.