ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the conference “Working Anthropology in the Twenty-first Century,” organized by Les W. Field and Richard G. Fox and held at the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, New York City, on 19–22 May 2005. Anthropology’s core jurisdiction is the production of knowledge about culture. The first master’s-level program in occupational therapy was instituted in 1947 at the University of Southern California, providing a new platform for the academicizing of this mainly female profession. The profession drew from anthropology and other mainstream disciplines in the 1980s and 1990s to establish greater academic credibility and autonomy while developing its new, cutting-edge discipline, occupational science. A full-time staff of five graduate student fieldwork interns from the University of Southern California Department of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy quickly and effectively developed methods and protocols for the tribal history-making activities.
