Anthropology

embarked on a new field when they became interested in human diversity; this would later be called anthropology. Considering this as the start, one might be inclined to believe individuals would be open to others and their practices. However, the very opposite occurred. Early anthropologists took on an ethnocentric approach, or they evaluated another culture according to their own(What is anthropology, slide 13). Throughout time, several tried to escape this idea, however, according to…

the history of mankind. The field of anthropology is broken up into four main fields. First, there is biological anthropology, examines the evolution of humans, health and diseases, and what makes us distinctly humans (such as our DNA). Next, there is archaeology, which seeks to understand how early humans, such as hunter-gatherers, lived before us. Archaeology studies trade routes, war zones, and ancient remains of city states. Then we have linguistic anthropology, which is the study of how…

Evolution, Physical & Linguistic Anthropology Evolution is defined by Charles Darwin as a process in which “organisms develop or diversify from an early simple form to that of more recent or complex form.” (Than, K. 2015). Physical anthropology is the study of how those living organisms evolve over the course of history. These physical anthropologists investigates evolution by examining artifacts, fossils, and other remains that have been left behind, in order to understand the differences in…

and linguistic anthropology,…

There are many subfields in Anthropology. One of them is cultural anthropology, which is the study of individual cultures mostly through participant observation, living in a culture or learning a culture different from your own. Cultural anthropology seeks to learn and compare cultures to help us as humans understand each other and recognize our diversity (Cloak, Jr., F. T., 1968). Basically, one cannot fully understand a culture without looking at all the features (the whole picture). One of…

Statement Anthropology is the study of humankind. This is the basic definition, but there is so much more to it than this. Anthropology studies humans in the past and present, through human remains and artifacts, culture, language, etc. Some anthropologists also study primates because of our similarities anatomically. Some primates are studied in depth because humans share an ancient common ancestor with them. There are four-sub fields in anthropology; physical anthropology, cultural…

Anthropology and Forensic Science Anthropology is the study of human bones and and the development of cultures and societies. Forensic science is the discipline in which professionals use scientific means to analyze physical crime evidence. Forensic science and anthropology are both used in many different ways and maybe even alike in some ways. Anthropology and forensic science can be used together to identify multiple things. Both help each other out in many ways through DNA or…

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…

Studying the human culture with looking into another culture from an up-close and clear perspective can make us understand a better meaning of their culture and their way of living. By looking at another culture without being objective or biased can be a burden for most people. With that said, we must use emic and etic perspectives to study their culture. Emic is a perspective from an insider’s view examining a culture from the inside of the culture itself. Etic perspective is studying the…

field has been reinforced by my academic background. As an Anthropology major, I became well aware of the importance of building and applying knowledge through a multidisciplinary and holistic approach. Although Anthropology encompasses four subfields, I was particularly interested in Cultural Anthropology because of its focus on people as well as on their cultural and social environment. My junior year of college I took an applied anthropology course. It was in this class that I learned how the…