ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book uses ethnography to capture the dynamic character of the globalized local. Ethnography has much to offer in documenting the complexity of the system in which planned projects are being introduced. It reflects the concept of the scholar practitioner, a concept first articulated by Jacqueline Copeland. It has been a central concern of this book to build on this idea that practice must be driven by scholarship and that it should contribute to the anthropological understanding of how things work. The book discusses applied anthropology, and few if any students are trained in navigational skills that would enable them to function well in these increasingly complex situations. It suggests that anthropological practice in the global locality will be interdisciplinary as well as intersectoral. Anthropology is an interdisciplinary discipline, connecting the physical/biological, the cultural/political, the linguistic, and the historical/ archaeological dimension of human experience.
