ABSTRACT
The practice of a public anthropology is not only limited to speaking out in the media of the classically conceived public sphere. The debates and controversy over the roles of anthropologists in the military and other defense and security institutions have focused on the concept and standards of ethics. Moreover, the situation of anthropologists in apparent academic positions of research and teaching is not all that similar either to that of counterparts outside the securityscape. In the cases of a passionate identification with an anthropological vocation, there is a distinct doubling of identity, the practice of 'a said and an unsaid' in one's work, and the effort to translate anthropological sensibilities, and especially its critical inflections of recent years, into bureaucratic rationality and modes of thinking. Public anthropology, at least in kernel, is scaled to the level at which anthropological research operates observed social action, dialogue, sustained relationships with subjects according to the virtues of the ethnographic method.
