What type of careers can you pursue with a degree in anthropology?

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What type of careers can you pursue with a degree in anthropology?

Answer 1

Since anthropologists study human behavior, you can find employment in hospitals, businesses, universities, and government agencies. It depends on what area of anthropology you would like to specialize in. Whichever area you choose, make sure to pursue plenty of internships in college to make yourself marketable.

For more information about careers in Anthropology, you can visit the American Anthropological Association's website at www.aaanet.org.

Answer 2

my guess is that you would have to apply for a grant to go dig something up and catalog it lots of gov grants out there

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Answer 3

teaching or work in a museum.

Answer 4

become an anthropologist!  ha

Answer 5

In North America, anthropology is traditionally divided into four sub-disciplines:

Physical anthropology, or biological anthropology, which studies primate behavior, human evolution, osteology, forensics, and population genetics;

Cultural anthropology (called social anthropology and now often known as socio-cultural anthropology in the United Kingdom, and both terms are used in Canada with limited distinction), which studies social networks, diffusion, social behavior, kinship patterns, law, politics, ideology, religion, beliefs, patterns in production and consumption, exchange, socialization, gender, and other expressions of culture, with strong emphasis on the importance of fieldwork or participant observation (that is, living among the social group being studied for an extended period of time);

Linguistic anthropology, which studies variation in language across time and space, the social uses of language, and the relationship between language and culture, and

Archaeology, which studies the contemporary distribution of form of artifacts (i.e., material modified by past human activities). Archaeology itself is normally treated as a separate (but related) field in the rest of the world, 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, however. 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. Similarly, forensic anthropologists may use both techniques from both physical anthropology and archaeology, and may also practice as medical anthropologists. 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.

More recently, some anthropology programs began dividing the field into two, one emphasizing the humanities and critical theory, the other emphasizing the natural sciences evolutionary theory and empirical observation.

Anthropological fields

Biological anthropology (also physical anthropology)

Primatology

Cultural anthropology (also social anthropology)

Anthropology of religion

Feminist anthropology

Psychological anthropology

Ethnology

Evolutionary Anthropology

Linguistic anthropology

Anthropological linguistics

Archaeology

Experimental archaeology

Historical archaeology

Public archaeology

Zooarchaeology

Evolutionary archaeology

Applied anthropology

Museum studies

Medical anthropology

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Answer 6

You can go into physical anthropology or archaeology, or you can become a wingnut trained in a discipline with sloppy methods and little integrity.