Anthropologists Practicing with Masters’ Degrees
Introduction
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11850100 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kathleen Quirk (University of California, San Francisco, corresponding author), Kathleen M Quirk, Marsha Jenakovich (University of Maryland, College Park) |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 2-6 |
| Publication date | 1997-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Practicing Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0888-4552 • E-ISSN: 2994-1628 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.17730/praa.19.2.j58h234288409522 |
| OpenAlex | W2055954195 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 4 |
This issue is an attempt to help identify and define masters-level practitioners in anthropology and to provide a forum for discussion and reflection for those trained in M.A. or M.A.A. programs. (Hereafter referred to as "masters professionals" or "masters practitioners"). The authors assembled here have agreed to help define who they are, what they are doing, and where the path of anthropological practitioner has taken them, with a focus exclusively on their experience as a masters-level practitioner. Masters professionals are a relatively unique and recent phenomena, the result of the vision of those senior anthropologists who created programs in applied anthropology in the 1970s and 1980s designed to produce professional practicing anthropologists with masters' degrees. By and large this effort has been successful, judging from numbers which show masters graduates often triple those of Ph.D.'s in anthropology (A.A.A. Guide to Departments, 1996). These numbers are not indicative of anything relevant to the discipline or profession, but serve to raise a question in our minds about what all these anthropologists are doing. Further, these data do not reflect the reality of practitioners' experience, the formation of practitioner identity, the context of training, the level of participation, and the contributions of masters professionals to the discipline. The master's degree is an indirect success especially in anthropology, where the standard often assumes acquisition of the Ph.D. This issue of Practicing Anthropology is aimed at helping to direct and clarify the above-mentioned issues, and make an effort to connect masters professionals in anthropology, as well as to uncover new directions for all practitioners by profiling this constituency. We hope that together these articles will start a dialogue among all practitioners as to the necessity, practice, usefulness, and marketability of this professional discipline, and the role of the masters professional within it
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| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0.08 |
| Citation span | 2000 - 2016 (17) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |