Title: What do Anthropologists do? - Advance Your Career
Headings: What do Anthropologists do?
What do Anthropologists do?
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Content: Anthropologists work in practically every environment and setting imaginable. They can be found working in large corporations such as Intel and GM or studying primates in Africa. Anthropologists work in deserts, cities, schools, even in underwater archaeological sites. From the Greek anthropos (human) and logia (study), the word anthropology itself tells us it is the field that seeks to understand humankind, from the beginnings millions of years ago up to the present day. Anthropology considers how people's behaviors changes over time, and how people and seemingly dissimilar cultures are different and the same. There are many areas of anthropological study....
Sociocultural Anthropology - Seeks to understand the internal logic of societies through ethnography
Archaeology - Retrieves artifacts from the past and places them in context to understand our history and its relevance for today
Biological Anthropology - Studies human and non-human primates past and present from ecological and evolutionary perspectives, addressing the intersection of behavior, culture and biology and how these systems impact health and well-being
Linguistic Anthropology - Seeks to explain the very nature of language and its use by humans
Medical Anthropology - Seeks to better understand factors that influence peoples' health and well being
Forensic Anthropology - Seeks to identify skeletal, or otherwise decomposed, human remains
Business Anthropology - Helps businesses gain a better understanding of their activities and customers
Visual Anthropology - Documents everyday life through filmmaking
Environmental Anthropology - Believes that the well-being of the environment goes hand in hand with the well-being of people
Museum Anthropology - Interprets ethnographic and archaeological collections to the general public
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