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A Handbook of Practicing Anthropology A Handbook of Practicing Anthropology Edited by Riall W. Nolan A John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., Publication This edition first published 2013 © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Wiley-Blackwell is an imprint of John Wiley & Sons, formed by the merger of Wiley’s global Scientific, Technical and Medical business with Blackwell Publishing. Registered Office John Wiley & Sons Ltd, The Atrium, Southern Gate, Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 8SQ, UK Editorial Offices 350 Main Street, Malden, MA 02148-5020, USA 9600 Garsington Road, Oxford, OX4 2DQ, UK The Atrium, Southern Gate, Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 8SQ, UK For details of our global editorial offices, for customer services, and for information about how to apply for permission to reuse the copyright material in this book please see our website at www.wiley.com/ wiley-blackwell. The right of Riall W. 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This publication is designed to provide accurate and authoritative information in regard to the subject matter covered. It is sold on the understanding that the publisher is not engaged in rendering professional services. If professional advice or other expert assistance is required, the services of a competent professional should be sought. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A handbook of practicing anthropology / edited by Riall W. Nolan. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-470-67460-4 (cloth) – ISBN 978-0-470-67459-8 (pbk.) 1. Anthropology–Methodology– Handbooks, manuals, etc. I. Nolan, Riall W. GN33.H25 2013 301.01–dc23 2012039876 A catalog record for this book is available from the British Library. Cover image: Top: Ante-natal clinic, Lesotho, South Africa, photo © Gideon Mendel / Corbis for UNICEF; Left: Close-up of tube with liquid in clinician gloved hand by the microscope © Pressmaster/Shutterstock; Right: Archeologists at work © thumb/Shutterstock; Bottom: Man at the phone with collapsed building in background © Claudia Dewald/iStockphoto. Cover design by Richard Boxall Design Associates. Set in 10.5/13 pt Minion by Toppan Best-set Premedia Limited 1 2013 Contents Notes on Contributors viii Preface and Acknowledgments xiii 1 Introduction 1 Riall W. Nolan Part I The Practitioner Career Arc 9 2 Professional Training and Preparation 11 Terry Redding 3 Making the Transition from the Academy to Practice 25 Mary Odell Butler 4 Job Hunting in the Twenty-First Century 36 Judy Tso 5 Job Success 101: A Quick Graduate Course 47 Cathleen Crain and Nathaniel Tashima 6 Careers in Practice 61 Susan Squires 7 Stress and Failure in Practice Work 71 Riall W. Nolan Part II Practitioner Bases 81 8 Doing Anthropology – Full Tilt, Full-Time 83 Gordon Bronitsky 9 An Independent Consultant in a Business of One 92 Judy Tso 10 How to Be a Self-Supporting Anthropologist 104 Grant McCracken vi Contents 11 Becoming a Practicing Disaster Anthropologist 114 Susanna M. Hoffman 12 An Anthropologically Based Consulting Firm 125 Cathleen Crain and Nathaniel Tashima 13 Nongovernmental Organizations 137 Adam Koons 14 Multilateral Governmental Organizations 150 William L. Partridge 15 Tools for Gauging Success in the Corporate Sector 161 Tracy Meerwarth Pester 16 Working for the Federal Government 172 Shirley J. Fiske 17 Anthropologists Working in Higher Education 184 Dennis Wiedman Part III Domains of Practice 197 18 Methods and Approaches 199 Mary Odell Butler 19 Practitioners Working in Health 210 Suzanne Heurtin-Roberts and Martha Hare 20 International Development 222 Mari H. Clarke 21 Military and Security 237 Kerry B. Fosher and Frank J. Tortorello, Jr. 22 Anthropologists at Work in Advertising and Marketing 247 Timothy de Waal Malefyt 23 Anthropology in Design and Product Development 258 Crysta Metcalf 24 Environment and Resources 266 Robert Winthrop 25 Practitioners in Humanitarian Assistance 278 Adam Koons Part IV Key Issues 289 26 Ethics and Practicing Anthropology – Pragmatic, Practical, and Principled 291 Lenora Bohren and Linda Whiteford Contents vii 27 The Academic–Practitioner Relationship 303 Linda A. Bennett and Shirley J. Fiske 28 Professional Communication 317 Nathaniel Tashima and Cathleen Crain 29 Working on Cross-Disciplinary Teams 330 Mari H. Clarke 30 Professional Networking for Practitioners 344 Paula Chambers 31 Drug Resistance and Biosocial Analysis in Practice 354 Amy S. Porter and Paul E. Farmer 32 High-Performing Applied Programs 372 Elizabeth K. Briody and Riall W. Nolan Part V Conclusion 389 33 The Future of Practice: Anthropology and the Grand Challenges 391 Riall W. Nolan Further Readings 397 Index 408 Notes on Contributors Linda A. Bennett is a medical sociocultural anthropologist who has worked in academic anthropology positions (Wright State University, 1966–9; University of Memphis, 1986 to date) and in a research faculty position in a medical school envi- ronment (George Washington University Medical Center Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Center for Family Research 1974–86). She has served as president of the National Association for the Practice of Anthropology and the Society for Applied Anthropology. Lenora Bohren is director of the National Center for Vehicle Emissions Control and Safety and Director of Research for the Institute of the Built Environment at Colorado State University. For over 20 years, she has worked on environmental issues with organizations such as the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the US Department of Agriculture (USDA). She has also conducted air quality studies throughout the United States and Mexico and helped organize national and international clean air conferences. Elizabeth K. Briody is a cultural anthropologist and founder of Cultural Keys LLC, which specializes in improving organizational effectiveness and understanding and reaching customers. Her recent publications include The Cultural Dimension of Global Business (with Gary Ferraro, 2012) and Transforming Culture (with Robert T. Trotter, II and Tracy L. Meerwarth, 2010). Gordon Bronitsky is the founder and president of Bronitsky and Associates, an organization which works with indigenous artists and performers around the world, both traditional and contemporary. They also work with indigenous communities in festival development. Bronitsky and Associates has an e-newsletter, From All Directions, which goes out every other month to nearly 7,000 people around the world.
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