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In this article, I use my own career as a lens through which to view the challenges of combining an academic career with that of a (part‐time) practitioner of applied anthropology. My main focus is on the particular variety of practice known as international development. Based mostly on my own experiences both in and outside of academia, but with occasional references to what I know of the experiences of academic colleagues who have also done applied work, I offer advice to students who want an academic job and would also like to do applied anthropology of one sort or another. Lessons and advice are derived from three long‐term projects in which I participated as a practitioner: Plan Guaymí (Panama), the Southern Manpower Development Project (SMDP—Sudan), and Development Strategies for Fragile Lands in Latin America and the Caribbean (DESFIL). I examine the challenges and rewards of combining an academic career in anthropology with work in the nonacademic world of the practitioner. I highlight contrasts between what is valued in academe and in the world of practice. Finally, I suggest a series of strategies for promotion and tenure.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction to Key Concepts / Stefanie Wickstrom and Philip D. Young -- I. Constructing Mestizaje -- 1. The Revolutionary Encounter / Rex Wirth -- 2. Mestizaje in Colonial Mexican Art / Sofía Irene Velarde Cruz -- 3. The Tradition of La Chaya in Vallenar, Chile: The Search for Imaginaries in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries / Iván Pizarro Díaz -- II. Barriers to Empowerment Through Identity -- 4. Born Indigenous, Growing Up Mestizos: Schooling and Youth in Arequipa, Peru / Mariella I. Arredondo -- 5. Questioning the Nation: Affirmative Action and Racial Quotas in Brazilian Universities / Paulo Alberto dos Santos Vieira -- 6. Political Subjectification, Mestizaje, and Globalization: Constructing Citizenship in Aid and Development Programs in the Peruvian Andes / Jorge Legoas P. and Fabrizio Arenas Barchi -- 7. The Door to the Future: Cultural Change and the Cheyenne Sun Dance / Jennifer Whiteman -- III. Empowerment -- 8. From Mestizos to Mashikuna: Global Infl uences on Discursive, Spatial, and Performed Realizations of Indigeneity in Urban Quito / Kathleen S. Fine-Dare -- 9. Indigenous Peoples as a New Category of Transnational Social Actors: An Analysis Based on the Case of Argentina / Sabine Kradolfer -- 10. Divine Design: Crafting and Consuming the Sacredin Afro-Brazilian Candomblé / Angela Castañeda -- 11. Women's Roles and Responses to Globalization in Ngäbe Communities / Philip D. Young -- 12. Politicizing Ethnicity: Strategies in Panama and Ecuador / Víctor Bretón Solo de Zaldívar and Mònica Martínez Mauri -- 13. Beyond Mestizaje: Andean Interculturality in Ecuador / John Stolle-McAllister -- References -- Contributors -- Index.