What do anthropologist do and is it a good job?

Question

i was thinkin about this as a career. im only 16 tho. what classes should i take in high school. is it good pay? how popular is it? how many years of school is this?!?! sorry if im asking alot of questions -_-'

but thanks in advance

Answer 1

I don't know about your high school, but mine never had Anthropology courses. Biology, though, helps. It's okay pay. I mean, you might not get rich off it, but it's interesting! Anthropology, in a summerize defintion, is the study of human beings. There's different fields to it: Archeology, Physical Anthropology, Linguistic Anthropology, and Cultural Anthropology (you can always google it to find out more info). I really don't know how popular it is...

To get a decent job in any Anthropology course you need at least a Masters degree. Having a Bachelors degree really isn't going to cut it. Getting a PhD, however, is the best! So 5-6 years to get a Masters and to get a PhD will take a lot more.  

Answer 2

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Answer 3

A career in anthropology can be prepared for by taking classes in history, social science, world cultures courses,  a foreign language or two, and more.  High schools usually don't have anthropology courses.

There are four sub-disciplines in anthropology:

1) cultural anthropology--the study of human societies and cultures; this discipline is enormous in scope, and includes doing ethnographies and ethnologies, the anthropology of religion, gender roles, ritual, folklore and mythology, and much more.

The groups studied can be entire cultures and societies, down to subcultural groups.

2) biological, or physical anthropology--this is the physical study of the human being, and fields can include medical anthropology, dental anthropology, forensic anthropology, bioarcheology, paleoanthropology, the study of human origins, and primatology, the study of our non-human primate relatives.

3) archeology--the study of the culture of past human societies.  you can specialize in prehistoric archeology, historic archeology, and have specialties in Egyptology, Mayan Archeology, stone tools or lithics, ceramics, textiles, and much, much more.

4) anthropological linguistics--the study of the history and dissipation, structure, and change in human languages.

All of the above will require lots of study at the university level.

If you want a job after a four year bachelor's degree in archeology, you can do so

with an undergraduate degree in anthropology or archeology, as long as you take a six hour credit course in archeological field school, and an introductory archeology course.  Typically, you can be paid about $12-15 per hour, and get free hotel and about $35 per day cash for food from this job, but be prepared for long hours and to live in a hotel and essentially be a migrant worker, moving from project to project depending on the season.

If you want more, you must get a master's degree, which is an additional two years of school.  The ph. D.  is the ultimate degree, and takes the longest time to achieve.

Essentially you would be professor and researcher.  It is one of my goals (i've got a master's degree in archeology, and will return to school after a few years of teaching in China).

I hope that answers your question.

Good luck!

James Zaworski