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Description

Research or study the origins and physical, social, and cultural development and behavior of humans and the cultures and organizations they have created.

Experience

A minimum of two to four years of work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is needed for these occupations. For example, an accountant must complete four years of college and work for several years in accounting to be considered qualified.

Education

Most of these occupations require a four-year bachelor's degree, but some do not.

Training

Employees in these occupations usually need several years of work-related experience, on-the-job training, and/or vocational training.

Tasks

  • Gathers, analyzes, and reports data on human physique, social customs, and artifacts, such as weapons, tools, pottery, and clothing.
  • Studies growth patterns, sexual differences, and aging phenomena of human groups, current and past.
  • Observes and measures bodily variations and physical attributes of existing human types.
  • Formulates general laws of cultural development, general rules of social and cultural behavior, or general value orientations.
  • Studies relationships between language and culture and sociolinguistic studies, relationship between individual personality and culture, or complex industrialized societies.
  • Applies anthropological concepts to current problems.
  • Applies anthropological data and techniques to solution of problems in human relations.
  • Studies cultures, particularly pre-industrial and non-Western societies, including religion, economics, mythology and traditions, and intellectual and artistic life.
  • Studies physical and physiological adaptations to differing environments and hereditary characteristics of living populations.
  • Studies museum collections of skeletal remains and human fossils to determine their meaning in terms of long-range human evolution.

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