(adapted from General
Anthropology Bulletin Spring 1998:4)
• Interacting
with people of diverse cultures, making allowance for difference in customs and
beliefs.
• Providing insight into social problems by
supplying information about how problems, such as aging,
conflict, or bereavement, are dealt with in other
cultures.
• Interviewing
people to obtain information about their attitudes, knowledge, and behavior.
• Using statistics
and computers to analyze data.
• Adapting approaches
used in public relations, marketing, or politics to different population
groups.
• Appraising,
classifying, and cataloging rare, old, or valuable objects.
• Repairing,
reconstructing, and preserving cultural artifacts by selecting chemical
treatment,
temperature, humidity, and storage methods.
• Drawing maps
and constructing scale models.
• Photographing
sites, objects, people, and events.
• Interpreting or
translating.
• Using
scientific equipment and measuring devices.
• Analyzing craft
techniques.
• Cooperating in
an ethnographic or archaeological research team.
• Making policy
based on social science research data, problem-solving methods, and professional
ethical
standards.
• Designing
research projects and applying for grants
• Producing a
research paper in appropriate format and style.
• Orally
presenting research results.
• Applying a
variety of ethnographic data collection techniques: ethnosemantics, proxemics,
life
histories, ethnohistory, folklore, event analysis, genealogies, etc.
• Producing and
editing a scholarly journal.
• Leading a pre-professional
organization such as a student anthropology society or honors society.
• Developing
public relations for a museum, field project, or conference.
• Designing,
building, installing, and acting as docent for museum exhibits.
• Coaching,
instructing, tutoring, and team-teaching with peers.
• Studying a
second language.
(adapted
from Careers in Anthropology
(Omohundro 1998)
02/23/2000