ABSTRACT
The title of this chapter requires some clarification. It concerns both the institutionalization of a social science perspective within a particular mode of agricultural research and the experiences of a social scientist in the institution. Where I think it may be distinctive and useful in this volume is in drawing together anthropological fieldwork in its routinized form of detailed ethnographic description, and the situation of the anthropologist working in a multi-disciplinary applied research team (an Adaptive Research Planning Team—ARPT).
