Law and Business. Law and business schools follow the same pattern as medical schools, in part because leaders in these fields have become more aware of the value of international perspectives and of the need to communicate across cultural and national boundaries. Students with anthropology training have increased success in graduate programs and the job market. In recent years, cultural anthropologists have been instrumental in helping former Eastern Bloc countries to overhaul their legal and economic systems. One of the most promising areas of business for those trained in anthropology is advertising, where anthropologists have been hired for such projects as promoting breast-feeding in eastern Africa and educating newly enfranchised South Africans about elections.
Anthropology is an excellent major for students interested in a teaching career.
Primary, secondary, and higher educational programs are now organizing multicultural curricula. These new curricula represent a greater diversity of cultures, and therefore of intellectual and artistic perspectives, than ever before. Archaeology enriches the perspectives of teachers of history by illuminating everyday life in the past, while biological anthropology contributes to the teaching of the life and earth sciences. Furthermore, as the makeup of our classrooms becomes more representative of the new global community in which we live, anthropology becomes of ever greater usefulness to classroom teachers and guidance counselors. Museums and Cultural Resource Management.