What is Applied Anthropology (And Why Applied Anthropology Rocks!)? | Definition, Examples, Careers
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- What is applied anthropology? In this video, I will not only be explaining applied anthropology with online definitions, but also sharing examples and potential career paths you could take. I personally am an avid fan of applied anthropology and making change in the world through anthropology. I hope you are too!
Who am I? My name is Alivia Brown and I am a recent UCLA Anthropology graduate on a mission to find a career that I love. My major does not have a straight forward "path" as many would say and I am not only determined to prove that I can be successful in my major but also demonstrate my ability to find a career that brings me joy. This is my journey to expanding my global and anthropological knowledge. This is my journey to finding the best career I can. This is my journey to finding happiness. This is my journey to success.
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Hey Alivia, I am a student of Anthropology at University of Chittagong. I often watch your videos, and It's really informative.
Thank you, good wishes ❤️
How cool! I am so happy to hear these videos have been helpful for you-good luck!
Applied anthropology is actually foundational but poorly applied in underserved communities. From the education system to race and inequality, applied anthropology would be so welcome. Unfortunately, anthropologists are uncomfortable getting into the mix at the local level to extract the real data that can help transition communities out of their ruts. Anthropology at large follows the culture set by the historic preservation community or the “Don’t touch it” culture. Think about the communities that feel resentment towards old systems. Think of the credibility good ideas that may be foreign to a community can be given by the perspective of an applied anthropologist. The difference between the good idea having a chance to work and it not being heard, is often the information and data on how that practice has shown up in other human communities. Being uncomfortable with getting involved in the making of history, the knowledge remains on book shelves and in academic circles, mean while communities suffer and wonder what good academics are to society… resentment.
I’ve been adding all your videos to my anthropology playlist!! You are definitely making a difference for a lot of us !!
This makes me so happy!! Thank you for sharing this with me!!
I am relatively new to the channel, but have been considering ways I might integrate TH-cam into my own public education schemes, and also interested in seeing what is already out there. I do, generally, find your advice to be quite good, and of high value to those considering taking up the study of anthropology. However, I would like to bring up a couple concerns about this portrayal of applied anthropology. I don't want to appear to be using this an "appeal to authority;" but, in the interest of full disclosure, I hold an M.A. in Applied Anthropology (Public Archaeology track), from the University of South Florida. USF was one of the first applied anthropology departments in the world, and was the first to offer both the M.A. and the Ph.D. in the United States.
I, too, have been exposed to the suggestion that applied anthropology is a "fifth sub-discipline." I suppose that might be a subject of internal discussion for the discipline; but, I would like to point out that using anthropology to develop intervention strategies for the benefit of our subject populations is an integral part of American anthropology from the writings of Franz Boas onward. I would definitely recommend looking into the work of Melville Herskovits, and also the writings of Eliot D. Chapple (first president of the SfAA). For some more recent work, I would suggest looking at Michael Angrosino's work at Opportunity House, and/or David Himmelgreen's and Nancy Romero-Daza's work among addiction communities in Connecticut.
My chief concern is that you have presented a fairly top-down, asymmetrical approach to implementing intervention strategies. We must always treat our research/descendant communities as knowledgeable actors with completely valid understandings of the cultural world within which they live. They must always be treated as full stakeholders in the negotiated processes that we facilitate. So, while we do always want to appropriately review the literature surrounding previous researches in our particular subject domains, we must still adhere to our core principles, such as participant observation and cultural relativism. For another perspective on using anthropology to effect change, I would also look into some of the background literature of "action anthropology," as promulgated by Sol Tax and Robert Redfield.
That's probably a lot for a TH-cam comment, so I will leave it at that. Thanks for your work on this channel, and for cultivating an awareness of and interest in anthropology. Best.
Hello there! It is really great to hear from people with this level of education in Anthropology, and more specifically, applied anthropology. I think the way you describe the individuals with whom we learn about and and research as knowledgeable actors is essential to the world of anthropological work.
In many ways, my channel tries to explain anthropology "at a glance" and it's goal is to spark interest and inspiration in young students (or anyone else interested for that matter) in the field of anthropology. Because of this, I find that many of the nuances get left of of my videos. I really appreciate this contribution to the comments because in reality, applied anthropology is so much more than what I have presented here.
As I move forward with this channel, I am hoping to spend more time on videos that allow for a deeper dive into the nuances of topics such as these. Additionally, I hope to one day bring experts onto the channel (because I certainly do not claim to be one, just a girl with her Bachelors degree here!) who can share their perspectives and expertise with the world. If you have any ideas or suggestions on this, please do let me know!
Thanks again for this contribution, these comments are incredibly helpful for me and my audience :)
Thank you for the kind response. I think you've already moved beyond just being an anthropology BA, toward becoming an excellent anthropology educator; it won't be long before you outstrip the general anthropological knowledge of most Ph.D. anthropologists, because you are continuing to educate yourself as a generalist, whereas they have mostly specialized and are no longer keeping up with the literature outside of their specialization. Your content is high quality, accurate, and perfectly suited for all of your target audiences; furthermore, you are not limiting anthropology to something that is done only in exotic locations, and "otherized" people(s).
A big part of my own mission is to reassert the centrality of four-field Boasian anthropology within compliance archaeology, especially our commitment to methodological holism. The ways that we choose to advance our own anthropological practices is ultimate what is most important to our development as anthropologists. I ended up going into the government sector, having worked for multiple county and state agencies, and one federal agency (FEMA, of all places). I am currently moving back into private practice by starting a non-profit research/public education organization. Last year I got the Council for West Virginia into the Google Workspace for Non-Profits; I quickly decided to start offering Google Classroom courses to those who need continuing education credits, or for those who already possess degrees that would be considered allied disciplines under 36 C.F.R. 61. My goal is, ultimately, to reshape how compliance archaeology works in the U.S.
That said, I think one way that we could all help each other out, as anthropological educators, would be to join together a number of not-for-profit regional think tanks that provide equipment and interdisciplinary expertise in all the overlapping areas of diachronic study. Ultimately, I want such regional centers to be built on public-private partnerships, and to use them to cut for-profit corporations out of the compliance archaeology business once and for all. I also think there's a need for a wide range of short courses to be taught in a knowledge, skills, and attitudes competence framework; personally, for archaeology, I am advocating that we adopt the UNESCO Competence Framework for Cultural Heritage Management, and start requiring a licensure exam at multiple levels of practice. Cheers!@@AliviaBrown
I studied applied anthropology in undergrad. I HIGHLY recommend anyone pursing this degree to get a certificate in Project Management or Data Analytics
Wonderful suggestion! I think about how similar applied anthropology is to project management somewhat regularly lmao
Hey..i want to discuss this field a little bit... for me, this fifth subfield of Anthropology will not be held by Anthropologists ourselves..but rather this field will used by other occupation such as psychologist, economists, social workers inter religious studies, Historian, politicians, law enforcement, lawyers, judges, law and rule makers, Teachers and others as they are the one who really interact directly to social netizen, create law and enforce those law to change societies... As Anthropologist and Sociologists tend to do research field while not directly applied it to society themselves...that's for my opinions...
I agree, one role a applied anthropologist could have us to package the data in a way where such people can draw from it easily for there given culture or purpose
Wow, Alivia, thank you for the insight. I'm doing my undergraduate degree in Anthropology and thinking about postgraduate studies I could pursue with Anthropology. Hopefully I can find motivation and ideas from all your videos
Aw this is so sweet, I’m so happy to help. I hope you can find some ideas from these videos!
Bit late to the party, first - really great explanation and examples.
Contra to your opinion I see most of work Applied anthropology done today as unethical (exceptions being cross-cultural exchange, cultural advocacy, and management of cultural resources - museum you've mentioned). My reason is being that most of the projects are financed by government or government is client and population is target. Of course government and our "anthropologistical" bias is telling us, we are doing best for (using your example) smoker... because we want to save their lives. But what we are doing is just changing cultural so it can fit to our institutions or in our standards what is healthy/safe/better.
If we are criticizing old school evolutionist for paternalism and there help of colonial administration, I don't see philosophically to big difference between modern Applied anthropology and Applied anthropology of the past.
Hello Alivia, Have you or anyone else developed a theory on the application of anthropology for the successful blending of vastly different and conflictual cultures? Thank you, for your kind sharing through these videos and your excellent course on Socratica.
Hi Alivia, I am conducting research on people with type 1 diabetes and work. I’ve interviewed them and going to show the data of their suggestions to help with particular issues to employers and work with them to see what is feasible and what is not, I.e. whether it will be able to be implemented. Would this be classed as applied anthropology?
This video cemented my decision, I'm definitely going towards applied anthropology
I’m back to campaign work, and I find this very very helpful. My senior thesis advisor had a PhD in anthropology and people often tell me that the field is impractical. I think they’re wrong! There is a lot you can do.
And this is very close to the work I’ve actually done. Even though I have a social science degree, I’ve worked in COVID testing and wrote my senior thesis in social epidemiology.
I’ve worked as a consultant and have also helped manage a public health education program about colon cancer screenings, and infant/mother mortality. I took astronomy at UCLA but I kind of wish I also thought about this hybrid approach earlier. I also loved biology but this is becoming complicated to communicate to employers.
Labor is also a complicated issue. Have you thought about doing a video about the anthropology of labor? I love your labor studies department at UCLA. That doesn’t exist in UW - Madison.
I agree! So much you can do
And Bones! I’m surprised you don’t hear this more, LOL.
I am a transfer student majoring in sociology going for my BA and what you described is very similar to what I have learned in a few of my sociology class. We learned that we use the information that's out there and apply it to the community at large. This also described the kind of jobs for applied anthropology. I want to do more research as I am finishing up with an AA in anthropology and am learning about applied anthropology at the moment.
Thank you so much for sharing!! And that's awesome that you want to do more research :) Applied anthro is awesome
love the energy and the passion!
Thank you!!
An example of Smoking , there’s a region community that smoking a kretek cigarettes is an act of easing chest pain … the kretek that are made from Cloves to mix with tobacco .. mostly Indonesian male smoke this to ease the chest pain back on 19th century ..
In southeast asia , old timer usually use this cloves to make a mixture with tobacco or even chewing betel leaves mix with tobacco .. my mom still chew it until this day from generation to generation from my ancestor ..
What is your thought about it ?
Wow I did not know about this, thank you for sharing! It sounds like this is a deeply engrained and historic cultural practice
@@AliviaBrown yea , most of southeast asian … you’re welcome !
Thank you for the video. Have you read "The Origins of Wealth" by Eric Beinhocker? It's regarded by some as one of the better books on Economics, and details how Economics is closer to Anthropology than suggested in much of the circulumm developed today that primaryly focuses on theoretical, Natural Scientific methods rather than a Social Scientific Methods to develop theories for the discipline. Eric's co-author in another book (and upcoming one I think), Nick Hanauner is a billionaire self discribed plutocrat, that is trying to help spread this more applicable expression for the Economics discipline that has more than just a pedagogical value.
No I haven't but thank you for sharing! I just did a video on economic anthropology so this feels really relevant haha. Thank you!
Thanks again for an informative video, Alivia. I'd like to draw attention to the work of Dr. Jeremy Narby who does advocacy work with peoples of the Peruvian Amazon. I'm not sure if his books, "The Cosmic Serpent" and "Intelligence in Nature", qualify as applied anthropology, but they raise awareness of ecological issues.
Oh wow, how interesting, thank you!
Right when I have nothing on paper after being a week late and then….boom here you are! Thank you!
Of course!
in undergrad (bio-anth) I was so frustrated because I wanted to do something practically helpful in my career. I wish I would've known about applied anthro before I graduated! I've been contemplating going back to grad school for a while, but I want to know what I'm going to do with my degrees when I'm done. this video and your channel is really helpful!
why your name is Alivia, not Olivia 😄; by the way ı am a student in Türkiye and our teachers send us your videos to watch. 2 days later ı have an exam wish me luck gorgeous!!!
Hey, I love your videos!!! I am a college freshman trying to learn more about humanities/ social sciences and your vids are very informative. Maybe you could do a video on public history/ museum studies? History seems interesting but there is so much info out there it’s hard to find where to start.
Thank you so much!! I would love to share more about museum studies/history. I have some videos on museums and history on my channel already actually. If you can't find them I'd be happy to link them for you. And you are so right-history is so expansive!
I never thought of the museum discussion as applied anthropology. I always thought it was a political issue and anti European bickering
I m a student of anthropology ..Doing B's anthropology from Quaid e Azam university Islamabad Pakistan..Now I m in 5th semester and i have a course about of applied anthropology .. and my presentation about How does Anthropology Work Today. Domains of Application; Medical Anthropology, Urban Anthropology, Development Anthropology, Forensic Anthropology, Cultural Resource Management.
Can u help me plz
That sounds amazing, thank you for sharing! What do you need to know?
Cultural resource management
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Check out UPSC syllabus on anthropology. I need to cover it in one month. Is it possible ?
I know it’s quite an ask but I would be truly grateful.
Hi! What us UPSC syllabus?
@@AliviaBrown its an exam in india for bureaucrat posts. Concerned with policymaking and proper implementation. Because india is so varied and diverse there’s a lot of options to chose as an exam subject. Anthropology is one of them. There are two papers covering all the 4 parts.
I decided on anthropology as a major bc of your videos! So thanks!
This makes me so happy, thank you for sharing that!!
Heyy, I am currently in 2nd year of college studying anthropology..and after I graduate I want to do a job and then move on to masters...can I get a job in data analytics with an anthropology degree??
Hi! That is so wonderful! And yes, absolutely possible. One way to do this is to minor in a subject related to data analytics. The main thing is making sure you have the knowledge base and experience for going into data analytics. I've come to find that after graduating, what matters most is not necessarily your degree, it is what you know :)
@@AliviaBrown yes , absolutely 💯 I am planning to take a certificate course for about 1 year on data analytics and then I will apply for internships...let's see.. what happens..also do you have LinkedIn account? Would love to connect with you there.
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Great quote! That's what I always say
Haha thank you!
Hi Aliva, your videos have been helpful to me, 100%, I’m a student of Anthropology at the University of Ibadan♥️.. Thank you and best wishes
But please, you said something brief about UNT “Applied Anthropology was anthropology put to use” please I’d like to know the full meaning of the UNT you meant.. thank you a lot♥️
Best video, more power to you 👏
Thank you! That's so nice!
Are you R c brown’s granddaughter ?
haha, no i am not. I am actually not familiar w this person
Mam ,Radcliffe brown ,the famous English social anthropologist..he was amongst one of the pioneering figure of anthropology
But You are doing fabulous job,,keep doing ❤️❤️❤️
@@iasyatradroppertotopper3380 Thanks so much!!!
Loves it
whoohoo!
Tq ma'am
Anytime!!
Ma'am can I have notes material or pdfs for understanding applied anthropology
Focus more on the topic and no so much on how that makes you feel, it will save a lot of time for everyone, it sounds interesting I always wandered wat was that about, but yeah its an interesting topic just stop the laughing 😂😅