Research, evaluate, and establish public policy concerning the origins of humans; their physical, social, linguistic, and cultural development; and their behavior, as well as the cultures, organizations, and institutions they have created.

• Anthropologist
• Anthropologist, Physical
• Ethnologist

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

• advise governmental or industrial personnel
• analyze artifacts to determine age or cultural identity
• analyze scientific research data or investigative findings
• analyze social or economic data
• catalog or classify materials or artifacts
• classify plants, animals, or other natural phenomena
• collect scientific or technical data
• collect social or personal information
• collect statistical data
• communicate technical information
• compile data on human physique, social customs, or artifacts
• compile information through interviews
• compile numerical or statistical data
• conduct field research or investigative studies
• create mathematical or statistical diagrams or charts
• describe artifacts
• develop or maintain databases
• develop plans for programs or projects
• develop policies, procedures, methods, or standards
• develop scientific or mathematical hypotheses, theories, or laws
• develop tables depicting data
• direct and coordinate scientific research or investigative studies
• edit written material
• explain complex mathematical information
• forecast or predict phenomena based upon research data
• interpret artifacts, architectural features, or types of structures
• interpret charts or tables for social or economic research
• make presentations
• obtain information from individuals
• plan scientific research or investigative studies
• prepare reports
• prepare technical reports or related documentation
• recognize interrelationships among individuals or social groups
• recognize interrelationships among social statistics or indicators
• recommend further study or action based on research data
• reconstruct record of past human life
• record historical information
• solve problems in human relations
• study artifacts, architectural features, or structures
• translate written or spoken language
• understand second language
• use computers to enter, access or retrieve data
• use current social research
• use interpersonal communication techniques
• use interviewing procedures
• use knowledge of investigation techniques
• use library or online Internet research techniques
• use mathematical or statistical methods to identify or analyze problems
• use nutrition research techniques
• use oral or written communication techniques
• use public speaking techniques
• use quantitative research methods
• use relational database software
• use scientific research methodology
• use spreadsheet software
• use word processing or desktop publishing software
• work as a team member
• write research or project grant proposals
• write scholarly or technical research papers