ANTHROPOLOGY IN PRACTICE: Planning for a Career in Practice

Nolan, Riall W.

doi:10.1111/an.2003.44.8.34

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“…Realize that while it is true that a Ph.D. provides little advantage over an M.A. for full‐time practitioners outside the academy (Nolan 2003), you must have a Ph.D. to get an academic position.…”

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“…As Nolan (2003) points out, the writing styles of academe and the world of practice are quite different. This is because the audience and the expectations are different.…”

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“…When I began to do applied anthropology from an academic base in the mid‐1970s, the road was still very bumpy, much more so than I realized at the time. Hopefully, the road is smoother now and will be more so in the future but, as Riall Nolan (2003) has observed, the disjuncture between academic and applied anthropology has lessened little in the past 30 years.…”

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“…So perhaps your first decision needs to be whether you want to be a full‐time practitioner or a part‐time practitioner with an academic base. There is no better advice to be found that I know of than Riall Nolan's book Anthropology in Practice (2003) if you are considering a career as a full‐time practitioner. It is well worth reading even if you only aspire to being a part‐time practitioner because, in many ways, it is an insightful ethnography of the world of practice.…”

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Practicing Anthropology From Within the Academy: Combining Careers

Young

2008

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In this article, I use my own career as a lens through which to view the challenges of combining an academic career with that of a (part‐time) practitioner of applied anthropology. My main focus is on the particular variety of practice known as international development. Based mostly on my own experiences both in and outside of academia, but with occasional references to what I know of the experiences of academic colleagues who have also done applied work, I offer advice to students who want an academic job and would also like to do applied anthropology of one sort or another. Lessons and advice are derived from three long‐term projects in which I participated as a practitioner: Plan Guaymí (Panama), the Southern Manpower Development Project (SMDP—Sudan), and Development Strategies for Fragile Lands in Latin America and the Caribbean (DESFIL). I examine the challenges and rewards of combining an academic career in anthropology with work in the nonacademic world of the practitioner. I highlight contrasts between what is valued in academe and in the world of practice. Finally, I suggest a series of strategies for promotion and tenure.

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2008

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“…What students have learned through their participation in Project Bosnia and Project Romania can be measured against the desired, career‐oriented outcomes outlined in a recent book by Riall Nolan (2003). In Anthropology in Practice: Building a Career Outside the Academy, he stresses that it is essential we build an “anthropology of engagement.” This suggests active engagement in human affairs, both civil and military, both profit and nonprofit, in ways that enable us to “be authentic.” For students, this suggests participation in field schools that provide definable actions, utilize specific training exercises, and offer workable strategies to aid (often marginalized) target populations.…”

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Learning Applied Anthropology in Field Schools: Lessons From Bosnia and Romania

Arsdale

2008

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This chapter illustrates how principles of applied anthropology can be learned through ethnographic or “cultural” field schools. Aside from a well‐rounded classroom education, aspiring applied anthropologists ideally should have substantial “experience in the field” before graduating, either through individualized experiences (the more common approach), or through group experiences. The chapter focuses on the latter, and discusses how such field experiences can enhance a student's emerging undergraduate or graduate career track. In addition, using two complementary types of field school (Project Bosnia and Project Romania, both at the University of Denver), the author addresses the concept of pragmatic humanitarianism, as well as the benefits of hands‐on group experiences of this nature for students and civil society at large.

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ANTHROPOLOGY IN PRACTICE: Planning for a Career in Practice

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Practicing Anthropology From Within the Academy: Combining Careers

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