Anthropology: The Four Perspectives Of Anthropology

Anthropology is the study that makes the world wonder what discoveries will the people find next. The root word “Anthrop” means the study of humans and their ancestral past, which relates to the physical character, environmental and social relationships, and the cultural point of view. The suffix “ology” means the study of. This physical and cultural combination of science became the study of humans from the past and present. This takes us to the four different perspectives of anthropology. The first is sociocultural anthropology, which is the study of how researchers oversee social interactions and the practices across various cultures. This illustrates how people live in these lifestyles by organizing, governing, and the symbolism behind it. Second is biological or physical anthropology, which is the study of how humans adapt to different environments, how each group works together to grow mentally and physically and the causes for disease near early death. Finally, the last two categories are linguistic anthropology and archeology. Archeology is the study of age dating from past to present and linguistic anthropology is the study of the different ways …show more content…
They can relate to human stress as well as responsibilities and social structures. As for baboons in the savannah, the only ones that stress the most are the Alpha males because of the large amount of responsibilities they have to fulfill for the troop. For humans the father is the caregiver, similar to an Alpha male, in the sense that they are held responsible for taking care of their family, in majority cases. In the excerpt titled “Why Zebras don’t get Ulcers” by Robert Sapolsky, he states, “your average male baboon gets a lot of grief from the current generation of thugs” (Sapolsky 318). This gives a better idea of how the male baboon gets stressed by all the other things going on. This is both common in the baboon world along with the human