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| Cultural anthropology is the cross-cultural
study of contemporary human communities. Cultural anthropologists
may investigate such phenomena as language, family structure,
political organization, subsistence patterns, historical change,
religious practices, and medical beliefs. Their findings are
based on ethnographic fieldwork that may be conducted anywhere
in the world, from a Himalayan village or a remote Pacific
island to New York City or Kent, Ohio. While anthropologists
often study their own society and culture, their understandings
are shaped by what we know of other peoples around the world.
Over the years, Kent State anthropologists have conducted
research in Korea, Kenya, Polynesia, with Navaho Indians,
and in contemporary middle America. |
Students of cultural anthropology often pursue advanced graduate
degrees and go on to careers in teaching and research at colleges
or universities. Others pursue careers in applied anthropology,
working for government agencies, private consulting firms,
think tanks, or non-governmental organizations. Holders of
Kent State degrees in cultural anthropology have been admitted
to doctoral programs at such leading universities as Northwestern,
Arizona State, Michigan State, Indiana, Rice, the University
of Florida, and the University of Hawai'i. Some have gone
into doctoral programs in such related disciplines as geography
or sociology. One has directed a major state agency in Ohio;
another holds an important position in the Ohio State library
system; and one is a filmmaker in Thailand.
- Dr. Richard Feinberg, 2004 |
Graduate student Joy St. James with some of her study group of Senegalese refugees in Cleveland, Ohio. Joy graduated in 2006.
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