Anthropology students/graduates please!?

Question

just curious, why did you take up these courses? what inspired you? what are your interests? what's your dream profession?

Answer 1

I am an Anthropology,Sociology and Psychology Major.  I originally took Cultural Anth for my cultural studies credit.  I really found the course to be interesting and continued taking more.  I ended up making it part of my major.  I am specializing in Biological Anth.  I plan on teaching.  The need to know about evolution is what inspired me.  I have the need to learn more and more.

Answer 2

when I was 7 my parents took all us kids in an RV and drove around the U.S. for a summer.  One of our stops was the Mesa Verde cliff dwellings.   I was intrigued and fell in love!!!!  I asked my parents if I could just stay there and live in them and wanted to know all about the people who built them.  My parents said archaeologist study the people who built the cliff dwellings.  Right then and there I told my parents I wanted to be an archaeologist.  The said o.k. and believed it was just a phase.  Well, it was not...I had discovered what I wanted to do and set up my goals accordingly.  19 years later I now have a B.A. in anthropology with a focus in archaeology and I am almost finished with an M.A. in historical archaeology.  I have been lucky to be involved in numerous excavations and have just recently in the past 2 years started to expand my archaeology techniques to water and have branched out to include underwater archaeology too.  My parents now believe the statement I made when I was 7 to be not just a phase.

Answer 3

I started out in a program for international politics and diplomacy, in a track for Public Diplomacy.  We were required to take 5 anthropology classes to learn cross-cultural communication skills, despite the stigma attached to "Going Native" in the US Foreign Service.  I always dreaded having to walk that line between acceptable tolerance and unacceptable advocacy and when I really thought about how much the Foreign Service runs the life of the people in it, I decided I wasn't as interested in that as in researching culture.  I had really great, quirky professors in anthropology that also helped convince me.  I hope to become a college professor and a researcher, possibly in medical anthropology and sociocultural anthropology.

Answer 4

anthropologists are notorious

for being dissatifsfied

with their own cultures

in their romantic youths

they have wanderlust

both physical and intellectual

they want to speak

a foreign language

they want to make friends

in strange places

and listen to their stories

http://www.odysseusepicmythhero.com

Answer 5

What is it?

Answer 6

I have always been fascinated by different cultures, especially their languages. I almost decided to study linguistics, but went with Sociocultural Anthropology instead. My dream profession would include tons of traveling and exploring the world. Not just the tourist locations, but all kinds of places with people of different cultures. It would be awesome!

Answer 7

I chose it because I took a course on anthropology and it made me think a different way.  My interest is in modern China primarily, but I am also interested in small populations in the U.S., as well as evolutionary biology.  My specialization is economic anthropology.  I haven't discovered my dream profession yet, probably in consulting and helping businesses market their products to international markets. With how global and connected the world has become, anthropology majors are more and more useful as people need to understand those from other cultures to communicate and do business.

Answer 8

always been fascinated with different cultures and languages. indiana jones partly inspired me. when i was young i collected stamps and coins from various regions of the world. i was always interested in different scripts.

Answer 9

Both my older brother and i did. I think we were inspired by my Father who had a love for History and Pre-Columbian Anthropology. My dream profession was and still is to be a Super model haha (truly just a dream)

Answer 10

I have always been interested in the way different cultures/people express the things considered cultural universals (music, dance, food, religion, art, architecture, clothing, etc.)  I double majored in Anthropology and American Indian Studies.  Fasinating for me.  Had great, charasmatic professors.  Ended up teaching on a reservation for 20 years.  Very rewarding.. . but if I would have gotten an advanced degree I would have had more options.  My dream:  Going back to school and get a PhD in Indigenous Women's Spirituality (which is a multi-disciplinary program that combines Anthropology, Religious Studies and Women's Studies).  But. . . my son is currently applying to graduate schools (his double major is Anthropology and Zoology), and I want to support his dream.  Maybe mine will come later. . . you never know.