Teach and mentor undergraduate and graduate students in anthropology.

• Instruct college students in social sciences or humanities disciplines.

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.

• Plan social sciences research.
• Direct scientific activities.

Collect information and make judgments through observation, interviews, and review of documents.

• Collect information from people through observation, interviews, or surveys.

Write about and present research findings for a variety of specialized and general audiences.

• Prepare scientific or technical reports or presentations.

Formulate general rules that describe and predict the development and behavior of cultures and social institutions.

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.

• Conduct research on social issues.

Advise government agencies, private organizations, and communities regarding proposed programs, plans, and policies and their potential impacts on cultural institutions, organizations, and communities.

• Advise others on matters of public policy.

Participate in forensic activities, such as tooth and bone structure identification, in conjunction with police departments and pathologists.

• Analyze forensic evidence to solve crimes.

Gather and analyze artifacts and skeletal remains to increase knowledge of ancient cultures.

• Conduct anthropological or archaeological research.
• Collect biological specimens.

Explain the origins and physical, social, or cultural development of humans, including physical attributes, cultural traditions, beliefs, languages, resource management practices, and settlement patterns.

Develop intervention procedures, using techniques such as individual and focus group interviews, consultations, and participant observation of social interaction.

• Design psychological or educational treatment procedures or programs.

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.

• Collaborate with technical specialists to resolve design or development problems.
• Communicate with government agencies.

Observe and measure bodily variations and physical attributes of different human groups.

• Conduct anthropological or archaeological research.

Construct and test data collection methods.

• Develop methods of social or economic research.

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.

• Apply knowledge or research findings to address environmental problems.

Examine museum collections of hominid fossils to classify anatomical and physiological variations and to determine how they fit into evolutionary theory.

Train others in the application of ethnographic research methods to solve problems in organizational effectiveness, communications, technology development, policy making, and program planning.

• Train personnel in technical or scientific procedures.

Enhance the cultural sensitivity of elementary and secondary curricula and classroom interactions in collaboration with educators and teachers.

• Advise others on educational matters.

Create data records for use in describing and analyzing social patterns and processes, using photography, videography, and audio recordings.

• Document events or evidence, using photographic or audiovisual equipment.

Organize public exhibits and displays to promote public awareness of diverse and distinctive cultural traditions.

Build and use text-based database management systems to support the analysis of detailed first-hand observational records, or field notes.

• Develop technical or scientific databases.

Conduct participatory action research in communities and organizations to assess how work is done and to design work systems, technologies, and environments.

• Conduct scientific research of organizational behavior or processes.

Identify key individual cultural collaborators, using reputational and positional selection techniques.

• Coordinate cross-disciplinary research programs.

Apply systematic sampling techniques to ensure the accuracy, completeness, precision, and representativeness of individuals selected for sample surveys.

• Plan social sciences research.

Study archival collections of primary historical sources to help explain the origins and development of cultural patterns.

• Conduct historical research.

Analyze and characterize user experiences and institutional settings to assist consumer product developers, technology developers, and software engineers with the design of innovative products and services.

Observe the production, distribution, and consumption of food to identify and mitigate threats to food security.

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.

• Develop software or applications for scientific or technical use.