Who pays for anthropological fieldwork?
Several different agencies fund anthropological fieldwork. Some agencies are part of the federal government, like the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the Fulbright-Hays, and the Fulbright IIE while other funding agencies are private nonprofit organizations like the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. Funding is not given out to everyone who asks. Researchers submit grant proposals that explain the question to be investigated, where the field work will take place, what methods will be used to collect data, and why the researcher writing the proposal is well suited to carry out the proposed research.
