Jobs for anthropologists

Transferrable skills Those skills developed in the classroom and in assignments that can be usefully applied in other domains

What do they include There are basic elements of social science training that everyone should have after a degree Are relevant to what non-anthropologists SHOULD think we are doing

For example… Gathering information (sometimes a lot of it) Assessing the quality of information Being able to summarize and explain that information Communicating findings verbally or in writing

Social science transferrable skills? Observation, reflection, questioning and making inferences Recognizing social and cultural impacts on thought and action What hasn’t been explored or what questions haven’t been asked

Which means… … social scientists know that empirical research with broad assessment of context yields results that can offer explanatory models for why people think and act the way they do Medical anthropology/bioanthropology can also contribute understandings based on body/biology

Continued… … with good information and analysis, we can suggest beneficial changes Ethical practice means consideration of other’s rights