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What is Anthropology? Anthropology is defined as the study of humankind and their
behavior. ... There is also a fifth sub-field, Applied anthropology. ...
Anthropology. ... Anthropology is NOT a trip to some exotic place to dance the
hula! • Anthropology is NOT just a monkey-hugging business! ...
Anthropology And Its Application To The World. Anthropology studies humans
in every place and time-past or present. Loosely speaking ...
Anthropology Careers. Anthropology can be defined in basic terms as the study of
humankind. ... Cultural or social anthropology studies human behaviors. ...
Applied Anthropology. ... Why did I tell you these stories? To illustrate that culture
and business go hand in hand. Anthropology is imperative to good business. ...
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Links between articles and anthropology class
As mentioned above, all authors didn't know what to expect when the issues were researched. They asked themselves questions and also compared greatly the society they lived in with their home society, which was North America. All three authors only realized the true answers at the end, when they looked at the big picture. As for anthropology class, there are many examples in which I felt like this. In our first assignment, cars as material culture, we had to go out and treat the Vanier parking lot as an archeological site. My first question was, "why do we have to do this and for what reason?" but after it was done and explained in class, I finally understood and then cared for the experiment. Many articles that are presented look at different cultures and their way of doing things, and at first it was very hard not to judge, but with time you come to understand that just because we live in a 1st world nation, doesn't make our way of doing things right. Everyone has reasoning of why they do things, and we have to accept what they do.
Links between articles and the anthropology textbook
One link between the textbook and two of the articles(cross-cultural and portraits of culture) to my opinion is that they're both ethnocentric. I remember one chapter where they write about Neandertals in a certain time and they name the time Middle Paleolithic in Europe and the Near East, but for Africa, they use the term Stone Age. Why is that? In the articles, especially the one on the Abelam peoples, the author is constantly comparing their culture to his, and using his ‘diploma in anthropology' to define their real and ideal cultures. They should all stop thinking they are superior just because we have more money and more technology and think that they're using this way because it works for them. As for the textbook, the writers should know better than to be ethnocentric! They're trying to teach us...
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