Being a ethnologist?

Question

would you say its a good idea of a job for someone who wants to travel the world???

Answer 1

Not really.

Ethnologists DO travel, but they usually travel to one area and stay there for quite a while, then return home and write up their research findings.  They generally earn their money by teaching, and when they have summer vacations or are lucky enough to get a sabbatical every six or seven years they might return to the foeld and do more reseach.  That gets really hard as you get older, expecially if you have a family.  Ethnologists also tend to travel to less-desirable, off the beaten track locations.  Also, to become an ethnologist, you need to spend many years in graduate school (The average number of years to get a Ph.D. in anthropology is eleven years.  You can kiss your twenties goodbye).  There isn't a lot of time for travel when you are in grad school.

That being said, being an ethnologist is a wonderful job and you DO get to do some travel.  But the jobs are very difficult to come by.  I know- I have one of them, and I had to pay a lot of dues to get mine.  Most of my friends who went to grad school gave up looking for one.

The jobs for anthropologists outside of academia are even harder to find.  Museum work generally requires that you specialize in that sort of thing in grad school.  The government doesn't hire nearly as many ethnologists as they should, perhaps because anthropologists are more likely to criticise the foreign policies of the US government than to subscribe to them.  Applied anthropologists have to be very entrepreneurial.

Answer 2

Airline Stewardess, or Cruise Ship hostess...

Answer 3

Ofcourse ,, if someone likes to travel the world , this major is so perfect for them ..As we know Ethnologists study and do research about people in the past or present with field work, oral history, direct observation or modeling. Ethnologists are recording and preserving the culture of the people. Ethnologists work with the public, in write and communicate their findings to others sometimes with film or recordings or special exhibits. Ethnologists work within a specific geographic region and time period. They gather information and analyze the social, regional and historical differences and compare them with the systems of that society (religions, customs, medical practices, intellectual processes). But , nowdays ethnologists work in Museums, research and cultural institutes, government agencies, universities, and private business, such as tourism and advertising, all have suitable work for ethnologists. As public interest in regional history has grown, the field of ethnology has extended beyond museum and curatorial work to include publishing in print and media as well as continuing education, research and tourism. Ethnologists may become writers, museum workers or historical interpreters, or work in nonprofit organizations or government departments dedicated to preserving cultural heritage or presenting it for the purposes of education or tourism .

Answer 4

One of my undergrad degrees was in anthropology, usually what occurs in you are assigned or choose a particular area of study with a particular thesis or theme in mind and then spend a lot of time, meaning up to years, in studying that very small tribe, or city or culture. Cumulatively over time you certainly may travel the world, but as an ethnologist you will spend a large amount of time in one place.

I was actually offered a lot of jobs directly out of school based on my anthro degree, many of them in marketing as they use anthropology to follow consumer trends as well.

If you want to hop from here to there quite frequently an ethnologist is probably not your ideal choice for academic study.