What is Cultural Anthropology?

Question

What is Cultural Anthropology?

Answer 1

The study of human cultural diversity across the globe.  HUman culture refers to shared and learned ways of thinking and behaving, transmitted through symbols.

Answer 2

A scienceless mockery of physical anthropology.

Answer 3

Cultural anthropology is one of four fields of anthropology (the holistic study of humanity) as it developed in the United States. It is the branch of anthropology that has developed and promoted "culture" as a meaningful scientific concept, studied cultural variation among humans, and examined the impact of global economic and political processes on local cultural realities. (Wikipedia)

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cultural anthropology  

n.   The scientific study of the development of human cultures based on ethnologic, ethnographic, linguistic, social, and psychological data and methods of analysis. (American Heritage Dictionary, as referenced from Dictionary.com)

Answer 4

i studied a unit of it in australia. it was defined as the study of cultural diversity. we looked at cultural similarities and differences among people around the world (marriage customs, kinship, sexuality, childhood as a social construct,etc). to gain info. on these aspects of life anthropologists conduct fieldwork on a particular culture group and write ethnographies(people+writing). eg of question: is adolescence a rebellious life stage due to the nature of it itself (biological determinism) or civilisation (cultural determinism)?? - Magaret Meads research samoa

Answer 5

The Study of Human Culture.

Less on the tangible parts of human existence, but more on the history of cultures, such as music, literatures and religion

Answer 6

Incoherent!!