This inexpensive text/workbook provides exercises that will enhance the undergraduate anthropology student's confidence, competitiveness, and resourcefulness in finding work related to anthropology.
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McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
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Für höhere Schule und Studium
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Höhe: 234 mm
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Dicke: 8 mm
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978-0-7674-1861-4 (9780767418614)
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John Omohundro is SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Department of Anthropology at SUNY Potsdam. He has taught introductory cultural anthropology for 32 years, receiving the Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching in 1985 and the Honors Professor of the Year Award in 2002. His research interests include ethnic relations, social networks, disaster impacts, and environmental anthropology. He has conducted research in Nevada, San Francisco, the Philippines, Newfoundland, and New York. Among his publications are Careers in Anthropology 2nd Edition (2002), Rough Food: Seasons of Subsistence in Northern Newfoundland (1994), and Chinese Merchant Families of Iloilo: Commerce and Kin in a Central Philippine City (1981).
PrefaceIntroduction1. "You're Studying Whaat?" How to Explain Anthropology to Other People2. The Anthropological Perspective3. Career Education from the Anthropological Perspective4. What Do Anthropologists Do?5. How Do I Find Out Whether Anthropology Is for Me?6. What Knowledge and Abilities Will I Need? 7. After the B.A.: Graduate School?8. What Careers Do People with Anthropology B.A.s Pursue?9. How Do I Begin a Job-Hunting Campaign?10. How Do I Get Hired?Exercises1. Ethnosemantics2. A Literature Survey3. Participant Observation4. Demography5. Transcultural Self-presentation: The Resume6. Social-Network Analysis 7. Life History: A Recent Ph.D.8. Internetworking9. Analysis of Survey Data10. Organizational Analysis11. Working with Key Informants12. Interviewing Yourself13. Building Rapport with a Potential EmployerWorks CitedIndex
