Dr. James Loucky Applied Anthropology draws on the methods and perspectives of Anthropology and applies them in an effort to alleviate current social, economic, and technological problems.
Applied anthropologists work in many fields, both in the United States and throughout the world.
Delivery of health services, nutrition, concepts of health and illness, and the hospital as a social setting is all studied by anthropologists in the same manner they study a tribal or peasant society. Likewise, the school room, the school system, and the structure of education can be investigated in the traditional manner of fieldwork, contextual analysis, and cross-cultural comparison. Cultural resources management, spurred by state and federal legislation, employs cultural anthropologist and archaeologists to assist in the preservation, restoration, and salvage of archaeological resources. They are in the demand as consultants to engineering firms that must assess the impact of proposed construction projects on cultural resources, both living and archaeological. There is a growing realization that human social costs mush be considered just as important as the technical and scientific aspects in planned change, or in any other aspect of lived human socio-cultural life.