The overall aim of the Anthropology in Europe scholarly endeavour is to take account and collectively reflect on the status the broad discipline of anthropology holds in the academy and in society in Europe at present. We take anthropology in the etymological sense of the word, therefore in the classical four field definition of its scope, through the wider range of practices carried out in the diverse “traditions”, schools and branches of the discipline. However at this stage, we will restrict the exercise to the fields of socio-cultural anthropology and ethnology.The interest in investigating the “state of the art” is to help identify what are the theoretical, epistemological and methodological strengths of the anthropological approach; as in contrast to other disciplines when the current processes of academic and institutional convergence set the stage in fundamental and crucial ways.