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June 16th 2006 01:17
Anthropologists study the origin, development and functioning of human societies and cultures, as they exist now or have existed throughout history. Anthropologists are concerned with the complexities of social and cultural life, including religion and rituals, family and kinship systems, languages, art and music, symbolism, and economic and political systems. Areas of specialization can include the study of a particular geographical area and/or population. The study of anthropology considers such fascinating questions as how peoples' behaviour changes over time, how people move about the world, why and how people from distant parts of the world and dissimilar cultures are different and the same, how the human species has evolved over millions of years, and how individuals understand and operate successfully in distinct cultural settings. Anthropology includes four broad fields - cultural anthropology, linguistics, physical anthropology and archaeology.
An anthropologist is a trained observer who knows the importance of collecting data, in listening and watching what others are doing, in reflecting on what has actually as well as apparently occurred, in researching the context, in applying various explanatory models, and in adopting a broad perspective for framing an understanding. Successful Anthropologists are passionate about gathering and analyzing data, finding innovative approaches to intellectual puzzles, consulting with and directing the work of others, plus reconstructing cultural records. Anthropologists' main research method is fieldwork, living with the people being studied and learning by participation in activities, often under difficult conditions.
The typical tasks completed by an anthropologist include collecting, identifying, dating, protecting and preserving indigenous artefacts, material possessions and other objects of anthropological interest. Anthropologists are often required to collect information and data about social or cultural behaviour, artifacts, language or biological groups. With the gathered information, an anthropologist will analysis and draw conclusions about the sample study and extrapolate this information to be applied to the broader community.
Academic anthropologists find careers in anthropology departments, social science departments, and a variety of other departments or programs, such as medicine, epidemiology, public health, ethnic, community or area studies, linguistics, cognitive psychology, and neural science. Jobs filled by anthropology majors include researchers, evaluators, and administrators. Cultural anthropologists have the range of careers filled by other social scientists; biological and medical anthropologists have other skills which are useful in the growing sector of health related occupations.
While historically associated with small-scale societies which were remote from the centres of world power, increasingly anthropologists have become involved in analysing the board-room as well as the bar-room, sporting tribes and nomadic professionals as well as wider systems such as capitalism and processes such as globalisation. We identify the myths of the rational as well as rationality among the mystics. Anthropology makes strange worlds familiar and the familiar world strange. Anthropological work is broad in scope and includes academic research, teaching, consultancies and public commentary. The geographic position and colonial history of Australia have led to the development of leading anthropological scholarship and practice in the fields of Australian Aboriginal, Melanesian and other Pacific studies as well as Indigenous land claims and native title.
For further information visit the Australian Anthropological Society or the World Council of Anthropological Associations.
An anthropologist is a trained observer who knows the importance of collecting data, in listening and watching what others are doing, in reflecting on what has actually as well as apparently occurred, in researching the context, in applying various explanatory models, and in adopting a broad perspective for framing an understanding. Successful Anthropologists are passionate about gathering and analyzing data, finding innovative approaches to intellectual puzzles, consulting with and directing the work of others, plus reconstructing cultural records. Anthropologists' main research method is fieldwork, living with the people being studied and learning by participation in activities, often under difficult conditions.
The typical tasks completed by an anthropologist include collecting, identifying, dating, protecting and preserving indigenous artefacts, material possessions and other objects of anthropological interest. Anthropologists are often required to collect information and data about social or cultural behaviour, artifacts, language or biological groups. With the gathered information, an anthropologist will analysis and draw conclusions about the sample study and extrapolate this information to be applied to the broader community.
Academic anthropologists find careers in anthropology departments, social science departments, and a variety of other departments or programs, such as medicine, epidemiology, public health, ethnic, community or area studies, linguistics, cognitive psychology, and neural science. Jobs filled by anthropology majors include researchers, evaluators, and administrators. Cultural anthropologists have the range of careers filled by other social scientists; biological and medical anthropologists have other skills which are useful in the growing sector of health related occupations.
While historically associated with small-scale societies which were remote from the centres of world power, increasingly anthropologists have become involved in analysing the board-room as well as the bar-room, sporting tribes and nomadic professionals as well as wider systems such as capitalism and processes such as globalisation. We identify the myths of the rational as well as rationality among the mystics. Anthropology makes strange worlds familiar and the familiar world strange. Anthropological work is broad in scope and includes academic research, teaching, consultancies and public commentary. The geographic position and colonial history of Australia have led to the development of leading anthropological scholarship and practice in the fields of Australian Aboriginal, Melanesian and other Pacific studies as well as Indigenous land claims and native title.
For further information visit the Australian Anthropological Society or the World Council of Anthropological Associations.
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