Careers in Anthropology - Softcover

Omohundro, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0767418611 ISBN 13: 9780767418614

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education, 2000

Synopsis

This inexpensive text/workbook provides exercises that will enhance the undergraduate anthropology student’s confidence, competitiveness, and resourcefulness in finding work related to anthropology.

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From the Publisher

This guide to careers in anthropology for undergraduates includes 15 practical exercises that help students hone skills such as interviewing, preparing a resume, searching the Internet for career opportunities, and learning to closely read job announcements.
In this short, inexpensive volume, students will find answers to such questions as: What can I do with a major in anthropology? Are there employment opportunities outside academe? What kind of salary am I likely to make as a working anthropologist? How can I get hired?
The text/workbook can be used by students on their own or as part of course assignments, and students at any level of anthropological study will find the exercises useful.
Chapter 3 has been expanded to include capsule biographies of a wide range of practicing anthropologists. Of particular note are three career histories with words of advice from these professionals working outside the university.
Chapter 6 on deciding whether to go to graduate school now includes more specifics on special graduate training as well as a generalized timeline for planning for graduate school.
Two new exercises have been added. "Interpreting the Text" (14) provides three examples of job announcements with annotations and asks students to find and closely read and annotate job announcements that appeal to them. "Know Thyself" (15) asks students to conduct a structured interview with themselves and then corroborate their answers by asking the same questions of another person.

About the Author

John Omohundro is SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Department of Anthropology at SUNY Potsdam. He has taught introductory cultural anthropology for 32 years, receiving the Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching in 1985 and the Honors Professor of the Year Award in 2002. His research interests include ethnic relations, social networks, disaster impacts, and environmental anthropology. He has conducted research in Nevada, San Francisco, the Philippines, Newfoundland, and New York. Among his publications are Careers in Anthropology 2nd Edition (2002), Rough Food: Seasons of Subsistence in Northern Newfoundland (1994), and Chinese Merchant Families of Iloilo: Commerce and Kin in a Central Philippine City (1981).

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0767418611
• ISBN 13: 9780767418614
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 162