Anthropology study of human beings throughout history, whether in the past or in the present. A simpler way to put it is anthropology is the study of human beans their origin, societies, and cultures. Anthropology shows us how human beings no matter how different they are from our society and culture give meaning to their lives. In chapter 1 we learn the different applications of anthropology from linguistic anthropology to forensic anthropology. There are so many different divisions of anthropology consider the fact of biological anthropology which is the study of people focusing primarily on the aspects that are genetically inherited. No matter what the study anthropology can answer many questions by studying what appeared in the past
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They are those that live with people of different cultures, learning about their shared values and beliefs, their social structure, daily activities, language, norms and expectations, religion, art, relationships and even magic. We also learn about the ethnographic data and cross – cultural comparison ethical aspects that an anthropologist must consider when doing fieldwork. There are many different ways which an anthropologist can collect data. They can be a participant or nonparticipating. They can conduct interviews or collect materials such as artifacts, letters, books or reports. This chapter also talks about women's role in anthropology and how opening anthropology to study women in society affected social structure and daily activities in the way people interact in a culture. It also shows us some of the problems and rewards of anthropologists working and studying in their own cultures. This chapter also gives us insight to the new roles for ethnographic data collection as the book states, " using techniques such as questionnaires, social surveys, archival material, government documents, and court records in addition to participate observations." (Nanda, Warms, …show more content…
I enjoyed the work he did in the 1930s she organized her studies on the characteristics that define masculine and feminine. I especially enjoyed her she studied the three groups beginning work on Friday for both sexes care of the child care and none of them work in progress. In another society both sexes were called masculine than they were very aggressive and violent with little interest in children. And in the third society male and female change roles where the women had more of economic role and showed more business sense men were more interested in decorating themselves and gossiping. Their feelings were also hurt more easily. Even though it wasn't in the book I very much enjoy the story of the two spirit
They are those that live with people of different cultures, learning about their shared values and beliefs, their social structure, daily activities, language, norms and expectations, religion, art, relationships and even magic. We also learn about the ethnographic data and cross – cultural comparison ethical aspects that an anthropologist must consider when doing fieldwork. There are many different ways which an anthropologist can collect data. They can be a participant or nonparticipating. They can conduct interviews or collect materials such as artifacts, letters, books or reports. This chapter also talks about women's role in anthropology and how opening anthropology to study women in society affected social structure and daily activities in the way people interact in a culture. It also shows us some of the problems and rewards of anthropologists working and studying in their own cultures. This chapter also gives us insight to the new roles for ethnographic data collection as the book states, " using techniques such as questionnaires, social surveys, archival material, government documents, and court records in addition to participate observations." (Nanda, Warms, …show more content…
I enjoyed the work he did in the 1930s she organized her studies on the characteristics that define masculine and feminine. I especially enjoyed her she studied the three groups beginning work on Friday for both sexes care of the child care and none of them work in progress. In another society both sexes were called masculine than they were very aggressive and violent with little interest in children. And in the third society male and female change roles where the women had more of economic role and showed more business sense men were more interested in decorating themselves and gossiping. Their feelings were also hurt more easily. Even though it wasn't in the book I very much enjoy the story of the two spirit