Anthropologists

<ul><li>Collect information and make judgments through observation, interviews, and review of documents.</li><li>Write about and present research findings for a variety of specialized and general audiences.</li><li>Teach and mentor undergraduate and graduate students in anthropology.</li><li>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.</li><li>Gather and analyze artifacts and skeletal remains to increase knowledge of ancient cultures.</li><li>Explain the origins and physical, social, or cultural development of humans, including physical attributes, cultural traditions, beliefs, languages, resource management practices, and settlement patterns.</li><li>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.</li><li>Train others in the application of ethnographic research methods to solve problems in organizational effectiveness, communications, technology development, policy making, and program planning.</li><li>Advise government agencies, private organizations, and communities regarding proposed programs, plans, and policies and their potential impacts on cultural institutions, organizations, and communities.</li><li>Develop intervention procedures, using techniques such as individual and focus group interviews, consultations, and participant observation of social interaction.</li><li>Construct and test data collection methods.</li><li>Create data records for use in describing and analyzing social patterns and processes, using photography, videography, and audio recordings.</li><li>Identify key individual cultural collaborators, using reputational and positional selection techniques.</li><li>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.</li><li>Examine museum collections of hominid fossils to classify anatomical and physiological variations and to determine how they fit into evolutionary theory.</li><li>Conduct participatory action research in communities and organizations to assess how work is done and to design work systems, technologies, and environments.</li><li>Apply systematic sampling techniques to ensure the accuracy, completeness, precision, and representativeness of individuals selected for sample surveys.</li><li>Organize public exhibits and displays to promote public awareness of diverse and distinctive cultural traditions.</li><li>Build and use text-based database management systems to support the analysis of detailed first-hand observational records, or field notes.</li><li>Formulate general rules that describe and predict the development and behavior of cultures and social institutions.</li><li>Study archival collections of primary historical sources to help explain the origins and development of cultural patterns.</li><li>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.</li><li>Enhance the cultural sensitivity of elementary and secondary curricula and classroom interactions in collaboration with educators and teachers.</li><li>Participate in forensic activities, such as tooth and bone structure identification, in conjunction with police departments and pathologists.</li><li>Build geographic information systems (GIS) to record, analyze, and cartographically represent the distribution of languages, cultural and natural resources, land use, and settlement patterns of specific populations.</li><li>Observe and measure bodily variations and physical attributes of different human groups.</li><li>Observe the production, distribution, and consumption of food to identify and mitigate threats to food security.</li></ul>