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I am studying B.A. History. What are the career prospects for anthropology?
Anthropology is a science which studies the origin and the physical, social, and cultural development and behaviour of mankind. It encompasses the study of the origin of human species as well as its cultural and social structures. Besides, anthropology studies the evolution of man at different ages as well as the physical and cultural diversity among humans, living at the same period of time, at various parts of the world in diverse environments.
There are three main areas of employment for an anthropologist — teaching, research and working in museums. Research jobs are available in organisations such as the Archaeological Survey of India and the Planning Commission as well as international organisations such as the United Nation’s UNESCO or UNICEF. Moreover, openings are available for socio-cultural anthropologists in Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) who seek their expertise in understanding of relations between industry and society.
Cultural anthropologists are particularly well suited to work in professions involving people Archaeology majors may become cultural resource management specialists. Museums are yet another potent source of employment. Many organisations such as the ICMR and WHO, and the Police Department also offer employment to anthropologists for crime detection.
A section of students may possibly opt for anthropologically-oriented research to provide better service delivery or to assess social issues and social problems in public health, education, urban planning, social welfare, government planning, and international development.
I am doing undergraduation in arts and interested in music. I would like to know about ethno musicology and the institutes offering programmes in India and abroad.
Ethnomusicology, formerly comparative musicology, is cultural musicology or the study of music in its cultural context.
One of the neatest definitions of ethno musicology is the study of “people making music.” In other words, ethnomusicologists are as interested in the people making the music as in the sounds of music they are making, and they try to consider the whole process and contexts through and within which music is imagined, discussed and made, not just the musical sound structures themselves.
The majority of ethno musicological studies have focused on communities bounded in various ways — by nation, region, or city, or by factors such as ethnicity, age group, gender, religion or class.
More rarely, ethno musicological studies are concerned with universal properties of human sounds or logical systems. Some studies have been comparative.
Many ethno musicologists have documented and described the musical style of large repertoires in specific communities, endeavours requiring field observation and collection. It is difficult to determine the limits of ethno musicological activity.
Department of Music, SOAS, University of London, offers a graduate programme in ethno musicology where music transcription is taken up as one of the papers. University of Berkeley, California, offers a B.A. degree programme in Music where music transcription is covered.
I am in Plus-Two (science group). I would like to know about career prospects in forensic sciences?
Forensic sciences or forensics is the application of various scientific methods and principles to investigate criminal and civil actions which are of interest to the legal systems. All the clues collected from a crime scene are analysed by forensic scientists in a crime laboratory and converted into evidence worth producing in legal courts. Physical evidence may include body fluids like blood and saliva, hair, impressions of tyres and shoes, fingerprints and footprints.
In civil cases such as proving the validity of a signature, forensic sciences can be applied. Forensic scientists work in close quarter with the police to provide information in solving a case. Forensics is the application of a broad spectrum of sciences to answer questions of interest to the legal system.
Forensic science is essentially a crime laboratory-based profession; the course qualifies students to apply their knowledge of science to the investigation of crime. It is not a discipline or branch of science, but is a catch-all for many distinct disciplines. It is broadly grouped into three: medical, laboratory and field science.
The main employment generating areas of students of forensic sciences is the police force, law enforcing agencies, legal systems, both government and private investigative offices. Specialisation in various branches of forensic sciences like forensic anthropology, forensic archaeology, forensic serology, provides a candidate job openings in their fields of specialisation.
JAYAPRAKASH GANDHI
Email: jpgandhi@gmail.com
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