What exactly does a cultural anthropologist do?

pharmakeus01
Tue, 23 Dec 2008 17:11:45 +0000

you read, you read, you read, and you read more.
You research in the library, go to conferences, write more papers, publish em, teach and read more.
Sometimes, you would get nice fundings, and that would enable you to travel to countries of your area of specialty where you will do some participatory observation, which should confirm your research and help you write your next paper/monograph/book.
and hell no, you don’t help out kids in Africa, your job is to observe how they suffer, not to interfere their sufferings. Those people who help out african kids are called imperialists, neocolonists, or hippies.