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THE ABSENCE FROM THE PUBLIC POLICY ARENA HAS BEEN THE RESULT OF BOTH HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENTS AND THEORETICAL BIASES WITHIN THE FIELD. RECENTLY, A RAPIDLY GROWING EMPHASIS ON PUBLIC POLICY IN APPLIED ANTHROPOLOGY PROMISES TO GIVE THE DISCIPLINE THE OPPORTUNITY TO BECOME A TRULY HOLISTIC POLICY SCIENCE.

Book reviewed in this article:Haudenosaunee: Way of the Longhouse. 1982. A film by Robert Stiles and John Akin.Akwesasne: Another Point of View. 1981. A film by Robert Stiles and John Akin.

In comparison with the other social and behavioral sciences, there has been a general lack of anthropological input or interest in public policy.This absence from the public policy arena has been the result of both historical developments and theoretical biases within the field. Nevertheless, there have been certain periods when significant numbers of anthropologists have worked in policy areas‐the 1930s. World War Il‐but even then their influence was not great. However, in recent years we have witnessed a rapidly growing emphasis on public policy in applied anthropology which promises to give the discipline the opportunity to become atruly holistic policy science.In addition to the discussion of the factors which have impeded and, more recently, contributed to anthropological involvement with public policy, each of the symposium papers is briefly introduced.

When Upton Sinclair wrote The Jungle a hundred years ago, his damning exposé of living and working conditions in Chicago's packinghouse district aimed for the heart of the American people. He acknowledged, though, that he hit them instead in their stomachs, and within six months of the book's publication, meat inspection was introduced to assure consumers that their meat was safe to eat. Today, meatpacking remains a hazardous industry, with some of the highest injury rates among manufacturers, and it still depends on an immigrant labor force, just as it did in Sinclair's day. But packinghouses have fled Midwestern urban cores for small towns on the High Plains, bringing with them a host of challenges. This article documents the human costs paid by those who produce our meat as well as the costs on the communities where these plants are located.