| Since its earliest years, anthropology has aspired to understand, and work to change, systems of power that produce structural violence, bigotry, racism and other forms of injustice. Our predecessors in the discipline, as have we, frequently failed in this pursuit, often failing to turn our methodological and analytical tools on our own society and ourselves. The most valuable of these tools is listening to, and learning from, those whose lived experiences are very different from our own. Without this, we will never live up to our ideals as a discipline and as a society. |