Anthropology

consistent, thorough, genuine engagement through “participant observation” b. He founded modern British anthropology…

Every culture is different, with its own symbols, traditions and practices. When studying other cultures researchers have to keep cultural relativism as a priority. Cultural relativism is an important idea that all scholars use. In anthropology, it is used when researchers look at different groups of people like the Yanomamo. When Napoleon Chagnon went and studied one of the most violent group he could not judge their traditions, customs or religious believes with his modern views. Cultural…

For example, shared knowledge in anthropology consists of the use of a common language, common methodologies and even anthropological theories. When knowledge is the same, reason can be used in the same way to arrive at the same conclusion. Reason works differently in personal knowledge and…

During the 1960s and 1970s two schools of thought took prominence in sociocultural anthropology: development and underdevelopment theory, as well as, the world-systems theory; which, in combination with the key tenets of Marxism laid the foundation of a new critical perspective called anthropological political economy. A precursor to the modern form of “political economy”, referred to now as “classical” political economics, has been dated to the eighteenth century, this later divided into the…

campaigns where we have seen a lot of ethnocentric comments from certain candidates. However, as Brassard (2010) states, “the fact remains that anthropology is largely left out of or otherwise obscured in public high school curricula in the United States” (p. 10). Popson and Selig (2012) elaborate that “Today, junior high and high schools with a separate anthropology course appear to be primarily private or independent schools, charter/magnet schools, or public schools in wealthy school…

One of the first schools of thought within the discipline was that of Evolutionism which looked at the sociocultural aspects of society through the lens of scientific method, “treating sociocultural phenomena as part of nature, subject to its laws” (Barrett, 2011, p49). Evolutionists believed that culture is purposeful and functional, and it will progress along a unilinear scheme, from savagery to civilization. Its gaze was entirely ethnocentric and anthropologists of this time relied on…

of critique for these concepts. Around this time scholars began what has now become a tradition in the discipline, which is that of introspection and reflection on anthropological methods and theory itself. A greater attention to the nature of anthropology and a critical eye towards its practices was being established at this time. This introspection led to a multitude of traditionally accepted…

Anthropology is defined to be the “holistic study of biological and cultural aspects of human beings”. Whereas Epidemiology is defined to be the “study of disease and what are its causal factors, the measurements and modes of transmission”. The essay will give a brief description of what does anthropology and epidemiology entail and will critically discuss the relationship between anthropology and epidemiology in health care. Medical anthropology is a subfield of anthropology that draws upon…

Maxwell’s Museum of Anthropology was a rather interesting museum that holds plenty of material culture backed by really interesting information. I recently had the opportunity to visit Maxwell’s Museum of Anthropology on November 26, 2016 and it was quite the wonderful and informative experience. Maxwell’s Museum of Anthropology holds rather interesting material culture, such as preserves from archaeological sites as well as artifacts that primitive individuals had used to hunt and gather as…

last 30 years, though; it is still fairly new to understanding the elements of all the different cultures the world has to offer. Colonialism has provided substantial starting point and has acted as a base for anthropologists’ views and concepts. Anthropology and colonialism have always gone hand in hand when examining the beginnings of societies and cultures. Colonialism offers and clear understanding of policy and practices that can acquire up to full political control over the country itself…