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Academic anthropology
includes cultural, archaeological, biological, and linguistic anthropology
Applied anthropology
application of anthropological data, perspectives, theory, and techniques to identify, assess, and solve contemporary social problems
50% of anthropologists with a Ph.D. have careers outside of academia
What do applied anthropologists do?
Anthropology of Education
Help facilitate the accommodation of cultural differences in classroom settings.
Urban Anthropology
Anthropology in Business
Anthropology can often provide unique perspectives on organizational conditions and problems within businesses.
Anthropologists may be able to act as “cultural brokers” in translating managers’ goals or workers’ concerns to the other group.
For business, key features of anthropology include:
Consumer Goods
Focus groups misled General Mills into believing that whole-grain breakfasts were a top priority for parents to serve their kids.
When anthropologists actually observed family breakfast practices they found that snacks on the run and “multicolored cereal” were preferred in reality.
The result?
Media
Disney hired a team of anthropologists to help it rejuvenate its appeal to a stagnating audience: 6-14 year old boys.
Boys tend to be less open than girls in regular surveys, making ethnographic methods better for understanding their interests.
The result? Disney created a new television channel, Disney XD, tailored toward the interests of boys. Disney has also seen a 10% increase in male viewership.
Marketing research is often proprietary
Social Entrepreneurship
Anthropology in the Military
WWII
Vietnam
Espionage
Afghanistan
Human Terrain Teams
1. Do nothing that would harm consultants
2. Scientific Truth
3. Openness
4. Teaching and Mentoring
How does the anthropologist ensure information she supplies is not used for violence?
Areas of urban poverty in industrial/informatic societies include substance dependence. Ethnographies of people who use illegal drugs provided the basis for policies to reduce needle sharing, which spreads hepatitis and HIV (Baer et al 2003)
In 2011 Wal-Mart employed one percent of the American working population. A study by UC Berkeley showed that Wal-Mart paid 12.4 percent less than the average retail industry. Because they employ so many people, they drove overall wages in the retail sector down. (Jacobs et. al. 2011)
Mexican migrants to the U.S. are often extremely poor--too poor to avail themselves of even low-cost clinics. So for many ailments they turn to curanderos who use traditional remedies. Trotter (1988) found that when these remedies are not available in the host country, and might be replaced with substitutes. In one case, the U.S. substitute was heavily contaminated with lead.
Examine the ways classroom practices actually work through ethnographic studies
You can even get joint PhDs
in Anthropology and Education