Anthropology

Anthropology is the broad study of human kind throughout the world and time, including biological aspects and cultural aspects of it. A culture is the range of learned human behaviour and patterns. Anthropologists’ jobs are to prove or disprove what we, the people, believe to be true.

I personally like the idea of different cultures and how they eat, survive, and have different customs. This makes every single culture on this planet unique in its own way. It also gives people the freedom to express things they believe in and show how much they really care for their cultures. For people of different cultures, it gives them a chance to experience what other cultures are like when they go to visit them, a chance to see how they practice their customs and go about life. It even allows for you to try new things such as foods, and the possibility of new sports. This is called linguistic anthropology when you experience the way culture works from first hand experience.

Something that makes a cultural so interesting is the fact that they can always be expanded and improved with new information. Cultures can also become multicultural where they make other cultures feel as if they are at home when they are in another culture. They do this by letting people practice their own customs and religion, and they serve the types of foods that they have in their own countries. It also gives the people that do not travel too much the chance to try things that other cultures have, without actually leaving their own culture.

The anthropologists learn how other cultures operate by taken observations of how cultures work, and they take collections of statistics from them. They also take interviews of people from different cultures, and by gathering a lot of information they find out of cultures work. All of this work is known as “ethnography”, where they gather scientific descriptions of individual societies. I believe that it is important for the anthropologists to study how these cultures and societies work because if a culture in order for it to succeed, they must know everything about the past and find any problems that could prevent expansion or anything that could diminish populations due to lack of belief in a culture. An example of this could be an item such as food, and it being used up too much, or the increase in the belief of same sex marriages where there will be a decline in newborns being created. This could eventually cause a culture to die of from society. So if anthropologists study this and the beliefs, they can alter the way that some things happen, causing a society to live up to its potential.
Since anthropologists do so much to help preserve our societies I believe that they are very important to our society, as they tend to make it a more ideal place to live. I also found it interesting that anthropologists do so much, and it was an interesting unit to learn.