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Career Details :: Anthropologists

Description

Research or study the origins and physical, social, and cultural development and behavior of humans and the cultures and organizations they have created.

Experience

A minimum of two to four years of work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is needed for these occupations. For example, an accountant must complete four years of college and work for several years in accounting to be considered qualified.

Education

Most of these occupations require a four-year bachelor's degree, but some do not.

Training

Employees in these occupations usually need several years of work-related experience, on-the-job training, and/or vocational training.

Tasks

• Gathers, analyzes, and reports data on human physique, social customs, and artifacts, such as weapons, tools, pottery, and clothing.
• Studies growth patterns, sexual differences, and aging phenomena of human groups, current and past.
• Observes and measures bodily variations and physical attributes of existing human types.
• Formulates general laws of cultural development, general rules of social and cultural behavior, or general value orientations.
• Studies relationships between language and culture and sociolinguistic studies, relationship between individual personality and culture, or complex industrialized societies.
• Applies anthropological concepts to current problems.
• Applies anthropological data and techniques to solution of problems in human relations.
• Studies cultures, particularly pre-industrial and non-Western societies, including religion, economics, mythology and traditions, and intellectual and artistic life.
• Studies physical and physiological adaptations to differing environments and hereditary characteristics of living populations.
• Studies museum collections of skeletal remains and human fossils to determine their meaning in terms of long-range human evolution.

Related Careers

• Archeologists
  
• Curators
  
• Elementary School Teachers, Except Special Education
  
• Geographers
  
• Historians
  
• Sociologists
  
• Urban and Regional Planners
  

Important Abilities

• Written Expression
• Oral Comprehension
• Written Comprehension
• Inductive Reasoning
• Fluency of Ideas

General Work Activities

• Analyzing Data or Information
• Processing Information
• Getting Information Needed to Do the Job
• Judging Qualities of Things, Service, People
• Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events

Important Skills

• Writing
  
• Active Learning
  
• Information Gathering
  
• Information Organization
  
• Reading Comprehension
  

Frequent Work Context

• Objective or Subjective Information
• Importance of Being Exact or Accurate
• Importance of Being Sure All Is Done
• Sitting
• Job-Required Social Interaction

Related Majors

Major	Add to XapPack
Anthropology	[ add ]
Anthropology/Archaeology	[ add ]
Anthropology/Human Biology	[ add ]
Anthropology/Human Relations	[ add ]
Anthropology/Linguistics	[ add ]
Anthropology/Religion	[ add ]
Anthropology/Sociology	[ add ]
Applied Sociology	[ add ]
Archaeological Materials	[ add ]
Archaeological Studies	[ add ]
Archaeology	[ add ]
Archaeology/Anthropology	[ add ]
Archeological Studies	[ add ]
Biblical Archaeology	[ add ]
Church Music	[ add ]
Classical Archaeology	[ add ]
Classical/Near Eastern Archaeology	[ add ]
Classics/Anthropology	[ add ]
Comprehensive Social Studies/Sociology	[ add ]
Cultural Resources Management	[ add ]
Dance Accompanying	[ add ]
Demography	[ add ]
Development Sociology	[ add ]
Developmental Sociology	[ add ]
Diplomacy/World Affairs	[ add ]
Economics/International Relations	[ add ]
Economics/Sociology	[ add ]
Ethnic/Gender Studies	[ add ]
Ethnomusicology	[ add ]
Euphonium	[ add ]
Foreign Affairs	[ add ]
Foreign Language/International Studies	[ add ]
Foreign Service	[ add ]
General Music	[ add ]
Geoarchaeology	[ add ]
Geography/Anthropology	[ add ]
Global Communication	[ add ]
Global Policy Studies	[ add ]
Global Studies	[ add ]
Government/International Relations	[ add ]
Government/Sociology	[ add ]
History of Art/Archaeology	[ add ]
Human Relations	[ add ]
Instrumental Music	[ add ]
Intercultural Relations	[ add ]
International Affairs	[ add ]
International Affairs/Public Health	[ add ]
International Business/International Studies	[ add ]
International Careers	[ add ]
International Economy/Diplomacy	[ add ]
International Environmental Policy	[ add ]
International Political Economy	[ add ]
International Public Service	[ add ]
International Public Service Management	[ add ]
International Relations	[ add ]
International Relations/Affairs	[ add ]
International Relations/Diplomacy	[ add ]
International Security/Conflict Resolution	[ add ]
International Studies	[ add ]
International Studies/Asia	[ add ]
International Studies/Relations	[ add ]
International/Intercultural Studies	[ add ]
International/Regional Studies	[ add ]
Jazz	[ add ]
Jazz Composition	[ add ]
Jazz Studies	[ add ]
Jazz Studies/Contemporary Media	[ add ]
Jazz/Commercial Music	[ add ]
Lesbian/Gay Studies	[ add ]
Medical Sociology	[ add ]
Music	[ add ]
Music Synthesis	[ add ]
Music Technology	[ add ]
Music Theatre	[ add ]
Music/Applied Music Education	[ add ]
Music/Business	[ add ]
Music/Elective Studies in Business	[ add ]
Music/Instrumental	[ add ]
Music/Keyboard	[ add ]
Music/Language	[ add ]
Music/Sound Recording	[ add ]
Music/Technology	[ add ]
Music/Theatre	[ add ]
Music/Voice	[ add ]
Musical Arts	[ add ]
Musical Studies	[ add ]
Musical Theatre	[ add ]
Musicology	[ add ]
Near East Culture/Archaeology	[ add ]
Orchestral Music	[ add ]
Personality/Social Development	[ add ]
Physical Anthropology/Biology	[ add ]
Piano Accompanying	[ add ]
Professional Music	[ add ]
Psychology/Sociology	[ add ]
Psychology/Sociology/Anthropology	[ add ]
Public/International Affairs	[ add ]
Religion/Sociology	[ add ]
Rural Sociology	[ add ]
Social Anthropology	[ add ]
Social Ecology	[ add ]
Social Foundations	[ add ]
Sociobiology	[ add ]
Sociology	[ add ]
Sociology Research	[ add ]
Sociology/Anthropology	[ add ]
Sociology/Business Administration	[ add ]
Sociology/Criminal Justice	[ add ]
Sociology/Criminology	[ add ]
Sociology/Criminology/Criminal Justice	[ add ]
Sociology/Human Relations	[ add ]
Sociology/Human Services	[ add ]
Sociology/International Sociology	[ add ]
Sociology/Organization Behavior	[ add ]
Sociology/Psychology	[ add ]
Sociology/Race/Culture/Gender	[ add ]
Sociology/Religious Studies	[ add ]
Sociology/Social Policy	[ add ]
Sociology/Social Psychology	[ add ]
Sociology/Social Work	[ add ]
Spanish/Sociology	[ add ]
Theatre/Music	[ add ]
Urban Applied Anthropology	[ add ]
Visual Anthropology	[ add ]
World Perspectives	[ add ]
World Politics	[ add ]

Institutions Offering Related Majors

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