In society today, the discipline of anthropology has made a tremendous
             shift from the practices it employed years ago. Anthropologists of today have a
             very different focus from their predecessors, who would focus on relating
             problems of distant peoples to the Western world. In more modern times, their
             goal has become much more local, in focusing on human problems and issues
             This paper will identify the roles anthropologists today play, such as where
             they perform the bulk of their work, and what it is they do in both problem
             solving, as well as policy making. It will also identify the issues they are faced
             with, that is, the nature of the problems they address. Ethics have always been an
             important part of anthropology, and this paper will also deal with the ethical goals
             of today's anthropologists and some of the ethical problems they are faced with.
             The information of this paper was obtained entirely from the internet. It
             was designed as an internet project structured to both teach and familiarize
             research through the World Wide Web. Any data in this paper was derived
             through information posted publicly on internet sites available to any member of
             the public with an internet connection.
             As a result of the narrow area of research, the information provided both to
             the author and the reader is limited. While it is true that the internet is a source of
             boundless information, the sheer amount of it all makes reading all of it
             impossible. Also, the total lack of journal reports, or texts, means that while the
             information provided may not be minimal, it is nonetheless limited.
             When people think of an anthropologist, the image of the jungle traveling
             character 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 actually
             the case. However, as time progresses, so does the role of the anthro...