Anthropology

lecture “What is anthropology” (2014), professor Mark Peterson defines what anthropology is, presents some questions that anthropologists do, and what differences are between anthropology and other human sciences to show that there is not superior or inferior culture, but that each culture is worthy of respect.…

groups of people. Much of this has roots in colonialism and migration – as soon as people started migrating, exploring, and running into groups that don’t look like them, these classifications were made to try to keep order in society. The field of anthropology has a dark history of this racial categorization; many papers and studies were dedicated to finding concrete biological differences between populations. This may not have been malicious in intent; there were many studies done trying to…

a solution are the ones who work with applied anthropology. This branch of anthropology…

& The Anthropology of Development In the last few decades the political geography of the globe has been completely transformed as some of the vast areas that were once known as “colonies” turned into “less developed countries” (Cooper, Packard…

Anthropology is the study of humans, from which their past and present is easy to understand. Anthropology identifies, understands, promotes, defends and preserves the complicated identities and behaviors of people living around the world. It is one of the greatest achievement of humanity as it brings together the global community of social scientist who provide service towards science and society. Visual anthropology is a branch of social anthropology, which uses visual arts, digital pictures,…

Anthropology of Sport is the culturally diverse and natural comprehension of game in ancient times, history, and the contemporary world (Blanchard 1995). It examines the financial, political and social measurements of game and how wear impacts the lives of people and groups far and wide. Sports has as of late pulled in close ethnographic enthusiasm as a protest of teach, a domain of pop culture through spectatorship, and through the contemporary rage for wellbeing and wellness. Sports has been…

An ethnographically guided research methodology is used to conduct this research (Hamersely, 1992). Ethnography was developed by anthropologists in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries for the study of small-scale, traditional, isolated societies, although it is now widely used by practitioners of many disciplines in all kinds of research settings (Angrosino, 2007). Ethnography is a plan of action or strategy of investigation in which the researcher studies an intact cultural group…

Forensic Anthropology is not only a career based on discovering human remains but entitles many different jobs within the obligation of becoming one. Forensic Anthropologist’s are involved in cases that contain human skeletal remains, decomposed corpses or burned bodies of victims. They help to identify victims, estimate when the death occurred or recreate what happened at the time of death and after death. Some might even be requested to provide witness statements to courts in a medicolegal…

incomprehensible mass of beliefs and values shared among all of us. Anthropology exists to study and explain how and why culture exists. Additionally, it helps to explain how humankind has created cultures which are so diverse and rich in tradition, and yet still somehow are strikingly…

Anthropology, the study of humankind, has four main branches: Cultural Anthropology, Archaeology, Linguistic Anthropology and Physical Anthropology (Larsen 2014). Physical Anthropology focuses mainly on uncovering the mysteries of human evolution by studying fossilized bones of ancient humans and primates to determine their place in our family tree and study what circumstances led to the evolution of the modern human (Larsen 2014). There is a specialty within Physical Anthropology called…