In general, anthropologists have studied small human groups who were poor and suffered from hunger from a holistic perspective taking into account their biological and socio-cultural dimensions. The chief method of the anthropology is fieldwork that is observation of the human groups in their actual habitats.
But how does an anthropologist would respond to these goals in the context of the growing poverty, inequality and marginalization of a large section of humanity under varying politico-economic orders being studied by them? This is the first question we would be addressing through this panel.
Our second and no less important question in this panel is, how the anthropologists may translate the SDGs and its plan of action in their ethnographic language arising out of the marginalities of their subjects?
The third question which we would raise in the panel relates to public anthropology. Have we been able to disseminate our learning experiences to the wider public and policy makers on the dialectics between marginality and sustainable development goals in their global and local contexts? In other words, have our field and archive enabled us to enlighten the public and the communities to make a fresh look at the interactions between marginality and sustainability?
