Social\/cultural anthropologists are interested in whatever it is that humans do, so it equips you to study social issues and ares of life relevant to people’s everyday lives – whether it’s researching the social importance of Facebook (like anthropologist Daniel Miller does in\u00a0this 5 min video<\/a>) or studying what it’s like to live with Haemophilia in NZ (which is just one of the research projects Professor Julie Park describes in this 3.5min video<\/a>).<\/p>\n If you feel like seeing more about the many places anthropologists end up, the careers page<\/a> from the American Anthropologist Association is a great place to start. For a more local flavour, check out the following links:<\/p>\n A degree in social anthropology can take you many places! It’s a discipline which encourages you to pursue your own interest areas because (as we highlight in our Practicing section) it gives you a transferable skill-set: from critical thinking, to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32972,"featured_media":0,"parent":23,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-473","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/anthnav\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/anthnav\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/anthnav\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/anthnav\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32972"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/anthnav\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/anthnav\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/473\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/anthnav\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/anthnav\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/anthnav\/files\/2021\/05\/Screen-Shot-2021-05-06-at-2.58.15-PM.png\")
<\/a>Tricia Wang, for instance, is a “global-tech ethnographer”, helping turn ‘business questions’ into ‘human’ ones. She talks about what she does in this 3.5 min video<\/a>. Lots of anthropologists are also at the forefront of innovative research in technology and the digital. Here<\/a>, Professor Genevieve Bell is asked about the future of AI, and this video<\/a> features Amber Case, a Cyborg Anthropologist, describing her area of expertise.<\/p>\n\n
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