How do they match: Anthropologists and Archeologists

  • Anthropologists and Archeologists

  • Policy Specialist
  • Research Anthropologist
  • Research Archaeologist
  • Researcher
  • American Indian Policy Specialist
  • Public Policy Specialist

  • Consult site reports, existing artifacts, and topographic maps to identify archeological sites.
  • Research, survey, or assess sites of past societies and cultures in search of answers to specific research questions.
  • Advise government agencies, private organizations, and communities regarding proposed programs, plans, and policies and their potential impacts on cultural institutions, organizations, and communities.
  • 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.
  • Conduct participatory action research in communities and organizations to assess how work is done and to design work systems, technologies, and environments.
  • Create data records for use in describing and analyzing social patterns and processes, using photography, videography, and audio recordings.
  • Develop intervention procedures, using techniques such as individual and focus group interviews, consultations, and participant observation of social interaction.
  • Formulate general rules that describe and predict the development and behavior of cultures and social institutions.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Train others in the application of ethnographic research methods to solve problems in organizational effectiveness, communications, technology development, policy making, and program planning.
  • Write about and present research findings for a variety of specialized and general audiences.
  • Write grant proposals to obtain funding for research.

  • Advise others on matters of public policy.
  • Apply knowledge or research findings to address environmental problems.
  • Conduct research on social issues.
  • Conduct anthropological or archaeological research.
  • Conduct historical research.
  • Conduct scientific research of organizational behavior or processes.
  • Design psychological or educational treatment procedures or programs.
  • Develop theories or models of social phenomena.
  • Instruct college students in social sciences or humanities disciplines.
  • Plan social sciences research.
  • Plan community programs or activities for the general public.
  • Record research or operational data.