What for, What More, and the Practice of Praxis: A Commentary on Edmund “Ted” Hamann's CAE Past‐Presidential Address

ABSTRACT In this Commentary I engage the vital questions posed by Dr. Edmund T. Hamann in his 2022 Council on Anthropology and Education Presidential Address: What do we do educational anthropology for —and what more can we do to ensure our work makes a positive difference in an increasingly unjust and precarious world? In the spirit of Ted Hamann's “scholarly generation‐spanning,” I look backward and forward in responding to these questions, highlighting the ways in which educational anthropologists have addressed “what for” and “what more” over the years. I suggest that a commitment to relationships and relational accountability constitutes a distinctive quality and practice of transformative educational‐anthropological research.