Not the company, but the job itself.

[beloitpiper]

I've read a few threads on here about people not being allowed to wear the kilt because the company says so, but I'm in a slightly different boat. My requirements as a senior include an anthropological study, which means I need to be as inconspicuous as possible. I'm not sure yet where exactly I'll do my field work, right now I'm planning on either a church or a truck stop.

Just kinda frustrating. I'm now at the point where I wear a kilt 5-6 days a week but this field work will stretch through 4 months meaning I either change into jeans before I go out, or just forget about kilts on the days I go out "into the field".

Maybe somebody I'll do a field study at a Highland Games!

[TheKiltedWonder]

You could use it in your field work. Conduct a breaching experiment using the kilt! If I'd worn kilts when I had Social Linguistics classes, then I would have definitely done the same...

[zeeew]

I agree, you can still use a kilt in your work, just someone else will have to wear it, so people wont know you wear one and "treat you different".
You could also wear it after a few weeks and compare the before/after the "I didnt know you wore a kilt" thing.

[Standard]

Zeew might be onto something. Could your project include a section of how strangers react to you while wearing "normal" clothing such as pants, and compare that to how they react to you when wearing a true man's garment ie the Kilt?

[Nighthawk]

I had a friend who did a study on deviant behavior, which ironic considering the person in question... He bought a roasting chicken, put a leash on it, and dragged it around a mall talking to it. He recorded the reactions of the people around him and called his report "Poultry In Motion." That's inconspicuous...

[Standard]

Zeew might be onto something. Could your project include a section of how strangers react to you while wearing "normal" clothing such as pants, and compare that to how they react to you when wearing a true man's garment ie the Kilt?

My mistake, thanks for clarifying the difference for me. Yes, for Anthropology you need to be as inconspicuous as possible so as not to disrupt the goings on of "the natives".

[beloitpiper]

See, if I wear the kilt and then record people's reactions then I'm not doing anthropology, that's psychology. Anthropology is the study of human cultures, so unless I go to a particularly kilted part of Scotland, then I'm compelled to remain pantsed...er, wearing pants.

[Carolina Kiltman]

See, if I wear the kilt and then record people's reactions then I'm not doing anthropology, that's psychology. Anthropology is the study of human cultures, so unless I go to a particularly kilted part of Scotland, then I'm compelled to remain pantsed...er, wearing pants.

There are plenty of venues where a kilt is far less out of the ordinary, such as Fourth Friday here in Fayetteville when the Cape Fear Valley Scottish Clans meets for it monthly "wee dram" night, on during our International Folk Festival. Yes, you need to fade into the woodwork to do the observation, but you could pick your venue to make kilt wearing possible, at least part of the time during your field trip. Like going to the beach in a business suit would not be good if you don't want to be noticed.

[gu3]

Half of "participant observation" is participating. When in Rome...

[zeeew]

Well, isnt anthropology and phsycology related, sorta, eventually? If reactions weren't part of anthropology, we'd all be dead from walking through fire, or following lemmings, or eating puffer fish, or something.
How about "future anthropology"