How do they match: Anthropologists and Archeologists

  • Applied Anthropologist
  • Applied Cultural Anthropologist
  • Research Anthropologist
  • Research Archaeologist
  • Researcher

  • 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.
  • Research, survey, or assess sites of past societies and cultures in search of answers to specific research questions.
  • 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.
  • 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.

  • 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.
  • Develop theories or models of social phenomena.
  • Instruct college students in social sciences or humanities disciplines.
  • Plan social sciences research.
  • Record research or operational data.