Anthropology need not be just an economic anthropology or cultural anthropology or linguistic anthropology; it can--or even should--discuss and consider individuals. It should not shift its attention away from individuals but focus on them and study them. Then anthropology would be going back to what the term "anthropology" denotes, the anthropos. Here, Heiss and Piette discuss what an anthropology of the individual might be and how anthropology has dealt with individuals.
Public sociology is an attempt to redress the issues of public engagement and disciplinary identity that have beset the discipline over the past several decades. While public sociology seeks to rectify the public invisibility of sociology, this paper investigates the limitations of it program. Several points of critique are offered.
Just as an expanded view of language policy now affords agency to many more actors across society than authorities and linguists alone, it also accepts that the dispositions these agents bring to language affairs influence language policy processes and outcomes.
Abstract History is of critical importance for anthropology because, in human affairs, the present is intimately linked to the past. Archaeology is important to the study of history because the material remains of the past supplement and interrogate historical documents.
