What do people think about anthropology and other disciplines in the social sciences and liberal arts? How do negative views of anthropology influence the discipline's future? A review of public discourse from news, commentaries, scholarly literature, monographs, and institutional reports reveals anthropology's current state and direction. The results point to great distress. Analysis demonstrates powerful disapproval of higher education, the liberal arts, and social sciences threatens the instruction, practice, and ethos of anthropology. Narrative domains in popular discourse reveal active attitudes demanding and executing audits, cuts, and closures of anthropology departments; legislation restricting teaching and research; and the dissolution of anthropology's legitimacy. This review demonstrates the existence and power of such popular narratives, analyzes how they reflect a common political-economic threat to the discipline, then asks difficult, critical questions before offering recommendations to confront one of the discipline's darkest moments. & iquest;Qu & eacute; piensan las personas acerca de la antropolog & iacute;a y otras disciplinas en las ciencias sociales y las artes liberales? & iquest;C & oacute;mo los puntos de vista negativos sobre la antropolog & iacute;a influyen en el futuro de la disciplina? Un an & aacute;lisis cr & iacute;tico del discurso p & uacute;blico de las noticias, los comentarios, las publicaciones acad & eacute;micas, las monograf & iacute;as y los reportes institucionales revelan el estado actual y direcci & oacute;n de la antropolog & iacute;a. Los resultados indican una gran preocupaci & oacute;n. El an & aacute;lisis muestra c & oacute;mo la desaprobaci & oacute;n de la educaci & oacute;n superior, las artes liberales y las ciencias sociales amenaza la instrucci & oacute;n, la pr & aacute;ctica y el ethos de la antropolog & iacute;a. Los & aacute;mbitos narrativos en el discurso popular revelan demandas por y la implementaci & oacute;n de auditor & iacute;as, recortes y cierre de departamentos de antropolog & iacute;a; legislaci & oacute;n restringiendo la ense & ntilde;anza y la investigaci & oacute;n; y la disoluci & oacute;n de la legitimidad de la antropolog & iacute;a. Este an & aacute;lisis demuestra la existencia y el poder de tales narrativas populares, analiza c & oacute;mo reflejan una amenaza pol & iacute;tico-econ & oacute;mica com & uacute;n a la disciplina, luego hace preguntas dif & iacute;ciles y cr & iacute;ticas antes de ofrecer recomendaciones para enfrentar uno de los momentos m & aacute;s oscuros de la disciplina. [antropolog & iacute;a, ciencia social, polarizaci & oacute;n pol & iacute;tica, educaci & oacute;n superior, cierre de programas]
