Anthropologists examine, analyze, report on, and compare different cultures and how they grow, develop, and interact. How people live offers insights into modern life and how significantly, or how little we have changed and how similar we are in our basic systems of interaction. Anthropologists can travel to exotic lands and spend time in primitive conditions or work in developed countries.
Cultural anthropologists may compare the culture of the medical world to that of the financial world, or the culture of professional athletes to that of legal professionals. Some anthropologists take a cross-disciplinary approach to the field, studying linguistics, chemistry, nutrition, or behavioral science, and apply the methodologies of those disciplines to their study of culture.
Qualities that encourage success in this field include a nonjudgmental, inquisitive mind, patience, and the ability to make conclusions from incomplete information.
Anthropology is associated with archaeology, writing, sociology, history, and even geology. Many former anthropologists choose to specialize in one of these other scientific fields. Linguistics and ethnology are major fields of choice for the anthropologist who finds physical anthropology less exciting.
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