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American Anthropological Association (AAA) recognizes two dimensions

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:

  • ethnography,
  • cross-cultural expertise,
  • focus on cultural diversity
  • holistic perspective.

Technology Development

Market Research

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?

Market Research

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

ETHICS

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?

What Can You DO

With Anthropology?

Apparently, quite a lot.

Policy

Propaganda

Led Troops

As human populations become increasingly urban, anthropology offers cross-cultural and ethnographic approaches to helping people adapt to life in the cities.

POVERTY

DRUG USE

MIGRATION

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.

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Examine the ways classroom practices actually work through ethnographic studies

You can even get joint PhDs

in Anthropology and Education

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