MUTUAL ENCOUNTERS
MUTUAL ENCOUNTERS

Summary/Abstract: Contemporary anthropology has many faces, subfields, and research interests. Anthropologists study every conceivable topic, study “up” and study “down” or, when focusing on their peers, even study “horizontally”; they also travel to all corners of the world, where they visit rural communities, indigenous populations, sweatshop floors, scientific laboratories, military training camps, border crossings, and NGO offices, and are seen in the halls of the headquarters of global institutions such as the European Commission, World Bank and United Nations. What seems a common and eternal practice to us today was not the case in the past. Our research interests have changed over time, and the world surrounding us has been transformed. By changing our focus, we have moved the boundaries of the discipline. Things are not the same as they were three or four decades ago.

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