Anthropologists and Archeologists

Anthropologists and Archeologists typically perform the following tasks: • Collect information and make judgments through observation, interviews, and review of documents. • Teach or mentor undergraduate and graduate students in anthropology or archeology. • Write about and present research findings for a variety of specialized and general audiences. • Plan and direct research to characterize and compare the economic, demographic, health care, social, political, linguistic, and religious institutions of distinct cultural groups, communities, and organizations. • Create data records for use in describing and analyzing social patterns and processes, using photography, videography, and audio recordings. • Train others in the application of ethnographic research methods to solve problems in organizational effectiveness, communications, technology development, policy making, and program planning. • Identify culturally specific beliefs and practices affecting health status and access to services for distinct populations and communities, in collaboration with medical and public health officials. • Apply traditional ecological knowledge and assessments of culturally distinctive land and resource management institutions to assist in the resolution of conflicts over habitat protection and resource enhancement. • Lead field training sites and train field staff, students, and volunteers in excavation methods. • Conduct participatory action research in communities and organizations to assess how work is done and to design work systems, technologies, and environments. • Develop and test theories concerning the origin and development of past cultures. • Research, survey, or assess sites of past societies and cultures in search of answers to specific research questions. • Write grant proposals to obtain funding for research. • Advise government agencies, private organizations, and communities regarding proposed programs, plans, and policies and their potential impacts on cultural institutions, organizations, and communities. • Organize public exhibits and displays to promote public awareness of diverse and distinctive cultural traditions. • Collaborate with economic development planners to decide on the implementation of proposed development policies, plans, and programs based on culturally institutionalized barriers and facilitating circumstances. • Develop intervention procedures, using techniques such as individual and focus group interviews, consultations, and participant observation of social interaction. • Enhance the cultural sensitivity of elementary and secondary curricula and classroom interactions in collaboration with educators and teachers. • Study archival collections of primary historical sources to help explain the origins and development of cultural patterns. • Formulate general rules that describe and predict the development and behavior of cultures and social institutions.