A professional who makes comparative studies of cultures or of selected aspects of cultures of living peoples and of peoples no longer in existence in order to determine historical relations, arrive at typological classifications, and make generalizations concerning cultural process and human behavior. Responsibilities include:

• Studies cultures of societies, particularly preindustrial and non-Western societies, including social and political organization, religion, economics, mythology and traditions, and intellectual and artistic life.
• May formulate general laws of cultural development, general rules of social and cultural behavior, or general value orientations.
• May specialize in description of details of custom and belief and their interrelations in one culture at a time and be designated Ethnographer.