History and Anthropology during the last decade For: Antropologicheskii forum Mark Edele and Debra McDougall The University of Western Australia mark.edele@uwa.edu.au ; debra.mcdougall@uwa.edu.au In response to the following questions posed to all contributors to the forum: 1. What are the most important changes that have taken place in your particular area of specialisation, and in your discipline as a whole, over the last 10 years? 2. How has the make-up of your field changed in terms of the people working in it (their age, the topics they are working on, etc.)? To what extent do interests differ between generations (or not!)? Which particular subjects are currently the focus of attention, and which would you like to see become the focus of attention? 3. How have the relations between academia and the external world (the institutions of state, society/the broader public) altered? What changes would you identify in the relations between the different disciplines? Mark Edele (mark.edele@uwa.edu.au ) and Debra McDougall (debra.mcdougall@uwa.edu.au)