This paper urges applied anthropology to return to its early concern with anthropological and sociological theory. That early work not only was closely tied to theory but also made significant contributions to it. The author suggests that the time has come for practitioners to develop a coherent theory of practice and offers some particulars on what such theory should contain.
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Walter R. Goldschmidt (2001) studied this question.
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