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This, so, so, much this. As an anthropology major and a biology major, I can tell you that we don't:

1) Carry guns and know kung fu and work for the FBI and have massive labs inhabited by adoring interns
2) Not understand common social conventions in our own society
3) Project our own greatness and sexual prowess on a regular basis - that's just ethnocentric

We do:

1) Wait around for stuff to finish in labs (in bio, anyways)
2) Discuss what we think about the reasons that other people think what they think
3) Read
4) Read
5) Read
6) Listen
7) Listen
8) Listen
9) Take a heck of a lot of measurements (again, in bio, although physical anthropology seems to be mostly about measurements and statistics)

Simply put, Bones is the type of woman that an anthropologist would be interested in observing.

Ha! May I also add:
10) Grade undergraduate work
11) Write papers
12) Read

umm.. i'm getting my masters degree in anthropology atm and sure, a lot of my time is spent reading,listening and taking measurements but i've also been working on actual projects which required cleaning bones found at an excavation and then do all sorts of stuff with them like determining height, age and sex, injuries, etc. granted, we don't hang around with the fbi but other than that i wouldn't say that what we do is thaaaaat much different from what brennan does on the show.. *shrugs* (or maybe i'm just extremly lucky and this isn't how it usually goes?)

It depends on what universities you go to, what level you're at (undergrad vs. grad), what kind of funding you can get, being at the right place at the right time (I got my master's at a school fairly well-known for its forensic program, and by chance they just didn't have any cases for almost the entire time I was there - well below their "average" for the preceding years), and even legal technicalities. As I understand it, in some countries, you literally cannot handle human skeletal remains until you have completed the Ph.D.

For me, it's also this notion that there's such a thing as a full-time forensic anthropologist, complete with their own, fully-functioning, high-tech lab (including hologram machine, if they're still using that - stopped watching eons ago). Even the biggest names in forensic anthropology are primarily teaching, researching and/or working in museums. And not ONE of them is actually involved in the investigation, interrogation of suspects, and so on.

So, yeah, what real anthropologists do is THAT much different from what brennan does, IMO. Not to mention, as others have said, the personal characterization such as being completely incapable of understanding the social norms of your own country and even disdainful of many of them. These are not the kinds of attitudes a person should aspire to, let alone an anthropologist.