What Role Does Location Play In Cultural Anthropology

Cultural Anthropology involves a number of different issues that play a role in our daily ways of life. These include power, subsistence, relationships, and globalization. As we’ve already learned, location plays a huge role in how culture helps shape our lives. Power generally means the same thing around the world; it is the ability to influence someone’e decision and have direction over them. However, the amount of power that individuals hold can vary depending on their rank in their society. Along with our place in societies hierarchy, we also need a few key things to survive. The basic units of subsistence include proper nutrition, water, a place to live, medicine, etc. Location determines the various qualities of these things and changes the standards to which individuals feel is good enough to live. Our constantly …show more content…
Two of relationships we have with people are kinship and marriage. Kinship can be seen as any type of family relation. Depending on the situation, this can include kin chosen through close experiences or kin that is related to you through life’s normal processes. Marriage would be described as choosing a partner as a mate and joining your life together. The text Annual Editions includes an article about the invention of marriage. There are three very detailed descriptions of what early anthropologists believed to be the key reason for men and women to begin marital relationships. After suggesting that men waited for the much wiser women and women relying on the man for his more intelligent way of providing and protecting them, the author explains that neither of these are the correct answer. There was a mutual need for survival that both genders could contribute to better suit each other. This seems to make the most sense as this is generally how a marriage works in today’s society. Two partners who support each other and supply each other with