Career Prospects

Apart from colleges and universities, anthropologists often find employment in various anthropological or archeological research organizations, including the Anthropological Survey
of India, with its headquarters in Calcutta. 

Many museums offer employment to anthropologists for undertaking excavations, exploration of prehistoric sites, and for the preservation, reconstruction and classification of objects and exhibits in museums. 

Anthropologists are also employed in the community health sectors, where they work as social scientists, dealing with the problems of public health, nutrition and disease. They also offer advice to medical institutions on the various new medicines for checking epidemics and other important disease-preventive actions. 

Medical organizations, including the Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR), the World Health Organization (WHO) and the institutes for immunology and health and family welfare and other such medical institutions, also offer employment to anthropologists. 

Moreover, the communications sector, including Human Resource Development (HRD) organizations, which deal directly with human relations and communicating with people, have also started employing anthropologists on a large scale. 

Anthropologists possessing enough research experience are also employed in the planning commissions, Commission for the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes and other government departments. 

The police departments employ anthropologists possessing expertise in forensic science, for purposes of crime detection. Various non-governmental organizations also provide employment to socio-cultural anthropologists, because of their expertise in the understanding of the relations between industry and society.

FUTURE PROSPECTS

Although a specialization in anthropology is not a strictly professional course, the career prospects for postgraduates, with sufficient research experience, are very bright, especially due to the increased awareness of human rights all over the world. Due to their expertise in the study of human society and social structure, they are in great demand in a number of social welfare departments.

RELATED CAREERS

Archaeology, museology, sociology.