Every human occupies a position in a complexity of groups with different sizes, constructions, and even purposes. These groups can include intimate such as families, religious organizations, fraternities, and tribes, or platonic such as bands, villages, companies, and nations. Our membership in these different sorts of groups adds a vital structure to our lives, allowing us to learn how to be human and placing us in a dense web of relationships with family, coworkers, friends, strangers, and enemies. Anthropologists study how humans create these …show more content…
Anthropologists have certainly had much to say about human races, and the results of our research sometimes reflect and sometimes challenge the various meanings given to this word “race” by non-anthropologists in the United States. People have been identified with different races, and on the ways in which race can affect interactions between individuals and groups. Anthropologists working within the different subfields of our discipline have different conceptions of race and the meaning of racial identifications, and non-anthropologists use the term without specifying exactly what they are trying to say. What are anthropologists talking about when they talk about