PA Comments: Pro Bono Anthropologico

Abstract

I arrived in Washington, D.C. in June 1983 to begin a two-year appointment as Director of Programs for the American Anthropological Association. Neither my wife nor I had lived before in an inner city of our own country. We chose an apartment a block from the AAA office, within a mile or two of the Kennedy Center, The Library of Congress, the National Zoo, and many of the galleries, museums, and monuments that define the city—places that had influenced our decision to temporarily leave our home in southern California.