Table of 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
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
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