What do anthropologist do?

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What do anthropologist do?

Answer 1

Study humans.

Answer 2

they come around people and spy on  and  watch them . they are nosy as a profusion and very annoying. than they go away and write a book all about your people and make a name for themselves and money that they don't share with the people they took from

Answer 3

We have the BEST jobs on the Earth. We study human culture, through language, digging artifacts, & observing cultures around us. We should be a mandatory staff member for every branch of government. We should be the Presidents best friend when it comes to foreign policies. The world would be a better place if there were Anthropologist in the White House!

Answer 4

I count monkeys.  I may be living with chimpanzees in the rain forest in a few months.  Thats just me, Michael N gave a pretty good answer for all anthropologists.

Answer 5

dig

Answer 6

Fields of anthropology: theoretical and institutional relationships

In the United States and Canada, and to a lesser extent in Britain and other English-speaking countries, anthropology has often been conceived of as comprising four related fields of study:

Biological or physical anthropology seeks to understand the physical human being through the study of genetics, inherited traits and variations thereof, evolution, adaptation, etc. Subfields or related fields include primatology, anthropometrics, forensic anthropology, osteology, nutritional anthropology, and human and population genetics.

Socio-cultural anthropology is the investigation, often through long term, intensive field studies (including participant-observation methods), of the culture and social organization of a particular people: language, economic and political organization, law and conflict resolution, patterns of consumption and exchange, kinship and family structure, gender relations, childrearing and socialization, religion, mythology, symbolism, etc. (U.S. universities more often use the term cultural anthropology; British universities have tended to call the corresponding field social anthropology, and for much of the 20th century emphasized the analysis of social organization more than cultural symbolism.) In some European countries, socio-cultural anthropology is known as ethnology (a term also used in English-speaking countries to denote the comparative aspect of socio-cultural anthropology.) Subfields and related fields include psychological anthropology, folklore, anthropology of religion, ethnic studies, cultural studies, anthropology of media and cyberspace, and study of the diffusion of social practices and cultural forms.

Linguistic anthropology seeks to understand the processes of human communications, verbal and non-verbal, variation in language across time and space, the social uses of language, and the relationship between language and culture. It identifies the many subtle elements of the world's languages, and documents their structure, function and history. Subfields include anthropological linguistics. Linguistic anthropologists often draw on related fields including sociolinguistics, cognitive linguistics, semiotics, discourse analysis, and narrative analysis.[4]

Archaeology studies the contemporary distribution and form of artifacts (materials modified by past human activities), with the intent of understanding distribution and movement of ancient populations, development of human social organization, and relationships among contemporary populations; it also contributes significantly to the work of population geneticists, historical linguists, and many historians. Archaeology involves a wide variety of field techniques (remote sensing, survey, geophysical studies, coring, excavation) and laboratory procedures (compositional analyses, dating studies (radiocarbon, optically stimulated luminescence dating), measures of formal variability, examination of wear patterns, residue analyses, etc.). Archaeologists predominantly study materials produced by prehistoric groups but also includes modern, historical and ethnographic populations. Archaeology is usually regarded as a separate (but related) field outside North America, although closely related to the anthropological field of material culture, which deals with physical objects created or used within a living or past group as a means of understanding its cultural values.

A number of subfield or modes of anthropology cut across these divisions. For example, medical anthropology is often considered a subfield of socio-cultural anthropology; however, many anthropologists who study medical topics also look at biological variation in populations or the interaction of culture and biology. They may also use linguistic analysis to understand communication around health and illness, or archaeological techniques to understand health and illness in historical or prehistorical populations. Similarly, forensic anthropologists may use both techniques from both physical anthropology and archaeology, and may also practice as medical anthropologists. Biocultural anthropology is a broad term used to describe syntheses of cultural and biological perspectives. Applied anthropology is perhaps better considered an emphasis than a subfield in the same sense as the standard four; applied anthropologists may work for government agencies, nongovernmental agencies, or private industry, using techniques from any of the subfields to address matters such as policy implementation, impact assessments, education, marketing research, or product development.

In countries of the British Commonwealth, social anthropology has often been institutionally separate from physical anthropology and primatology, which may be connected with departments of biology or zoology; and from archaeology, which may be connected with departments of Classics, Egyptology, and the like. In other countries (and in some, particularly smaller, British and North American universities), anthropologists have also found themselves institutionally linked with scholars of folklore, museum studies, human geography, sociology, social relations, ethnic studies, cultural studies, and social work.

More recently, anthropology programs at several prominent U.S. universities have begun dividing the field into two: one emphasizing the humanities, critical theory, and interpretive or semotic approaches; the other emphasizing evolutionary theory, quantitive methods, and explicit theory testing (over idiographic description)[5], though there have also been institutional pressures to rejoin at least one high-profile split department.[6] At some universitities, biological anthropology and archaelogy programs have also moved from departments of anthropology to departments of biology or other related fields. This has occasioned much discussion within the American Anthropological Association, and it remains to be seen whether some form of the four-field organization will persist in North American universities.[7]

As might be inferred from the above list of subfields, anthropology is a methodologically diverse discipline, incorporating both qualitative methods and quantitative methods. Ethnographies—intensive case studies based on field research—have historically had a central place in the literature of sociocultural and linguistic anthropology, but are increasingly supplemented by mixed-methods approaches. Currently, technological advancements are spurring methodological innovation across anthropology's subfields. Radiocarbon dating, population genetics, GPS, and digitial video- and audio-recording are just a few of the many technologies spurring new developments in anthropological research.

Answer 7

We do awesome things. Like dig, and discover, and use words no one else understands. We just plain rock.

Answer 8

digs for hidden treasure

Answer 9

study life forms

Answer 10

Study the History of mankind and its civilization , as with historians it can help show the mistakes the civilizations have lead to their eventual extinction and how they have influenced our  society today .

Yesterday i heard an interesting piece on why binge drinking is more prevalent in northern European countries its because Beer doesn't keep as wine does so it must all be drunk

During the Roman occupation wine was imported and the drinking habits of the English changed after they left they went back to binge drinking of beer .

Also anthropology tells us that beer was drunk dailynand with frequency because water was contaminated and the stilling of  beer killed of the bacteria . Coffee when introduced was thought of as the great sobriety , thus coffee houses became the intellectual  philosophical and trade centres of Europe

Anthropology is a combination of History , Psychology  Archeology, sociology  and involves all the Humanities and sciences

I have studied  many of the humanities and soft sciences But i haven't done a n in depth course in Anthropology

Answer 11

To put simply in the United States anthropology is the holistic study of humans and human culture through the four subfields of cultural anthropology, linguistic anthropology, physical anthropology, and archaeology.  Depending on what subfield someone specializes in, that will determine what career path they will take.  Different jobs include ethnographers, sociocultural analysts, project directors for CRM (consulting archaeology) firms, forensic experts, interpreters, etc.  For example, my subfield in anthropology was archaeology so I do mapping and archaeological research in my profession.

Answer 12

Chuckle, unless they have a PhD & are funded, they teach write or serve fries at the local fast food place.  Anthropology is a much underappreciated branch of science that has made enormous contributions to understanding human history, but it does not generate the profits for corporations that many other branches of Science do.

Part of the above problems may be due to the near universial condemnation by religious groups.  One must almost take a vow of poverty to go into the field of Anthropology as the path to the top is narrow & full of pitfalls.

Answer 13

study and investigate about humans and their life.It comes from the words anthropos=human(in Greek) and logos=science.