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Robert Borofsky was a Professor of Anthropology at Hawaii Pacific University and is currently an editor for the California Series in Public Anthropology.  Robert Borofsky is also the founder and director of the Center for a Public Anthropology. Borofsky, now a retired anthropology professor, still continues to write and edit many works.

Robert Borofsky is an American anthropologist who has encouraged many anthropologists to look into jobs and roles in public anthropology. The term "Public Anthropology has also been said to have been coined by Robert Borofsky.  Public anthropology, according to Borofsky, is more than a label and is when anthropologists pursue problems in the public outside of the discipline.

Along being an anthropology professor, Borofsky is also an author of many anthropological books such as "Making History", and has edited many other works. Some of the books he has written are "An Anthropology of Anthropology", "Making History" and "Yanomami: The Fierce Controversy and What We Can Learn From It", which is about the Yanomami blood controversy when blood samples were taken and withheld important information from the Yanomami people regarding their blood samples.

Robert Borofsky took part in the Yanomami Blood Controversy in an effort to return blood samples that were kept to study from the Yanomami.

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  4. ^ "Returning Yanomami Blood Samples – Center for a Public Anthropology". Retrieved 2020-10-28.
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