In society today, the discipline of anthropology has made a tremendous shift from the practices it employed years ago. Anthropologists of today have avery different focus from their predecessors, who would focus on relatingproblems of distant peoples to the Western world. In more modern times, theirgoal has become much more local, in focusing on human problems and issueswithin the societies they live.This paper will identify the roles anthropologists today play, such as wherethey perform the bulk of their work, and what it is they do in both problemsolving, as well as policy making. It will also identify the issues they are facedwith, that is, the nature of the problems they address. Ethics have always been animportant part of anthropology, and this paper will also deal with the ethical goalsof today's anthropologists and some of the ethical problems they are faced with.The information of this paper was obtained entirely from the internet. Itwas designed as an internet project structured to both teach and familiarizeresearch through the World Wide Web. Any data in this paper was derivedthrough information posted publicly on internet sites available to any member ofthe public with an internet connection.As a result of the narrow area of research, the information provided both tothe author and the reader is limited. While it is true that the internet is a source ofboundless information, the sheer amount of it all makes reading all of itimpossible. Also, the total lack of journal reports, or texts, means that while theinformation provided may not be minimal, it is nonetheless limited.When people think of an anthropologist, the image of the jungle travelingcharacter comes to mind. A white man sitting in a hut on some primitive island,taking notes on the local tribes s/he is living with. Decades ago, this was actuallythe case. However, as time progresses, so does the role of the anthropologist intoday's society. Very rarely now...
