ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the place and the problems of anthropologists working as anthropologists in attempting to formally inject anthropological knowledge into the administration of environmental planning. An administrative process is one in which the primary function of the individuals in the process is to direct, control, manage or interpret the behavior or work of others through direct contact or through the production of materials whose purpose is direction or interpretation. After the Second World War anthropologists played important, albeit advisory roles in the administration of areas and groups within the traditional, non-Western small-scale domains of anthropology, notably in the Pacific. Anthropologists have had their normal share of administrative posts as department heads, provosts, deans and college presidents. Technicians are specialists who review and advise from their particular background on material which passes through the administrative process for the benefit of the staffers, attorneys, and manager or decisionmakers.
