What is it about Anthropology that you love?

Question

What is it about Anthropology that you love?

Answer 1

The variety and complexity of it. Pastel coloured Saami, jet black Sudanese giants, and tiny little pygmies. What stopped them just being foraging animals and turned them into city builders? Who is related to who, and why do people so far apart look sometimes look so similar, while people practically next door to each other geographically can be at opposite ends of the spectrum?

That's why.

Answer 2

Cultural relatism.  It is like anthropology is the passport I have that allows me to see the four corners of the earth and all my cousins.   I love it.  I love this S**t

Answer 3

The study of cultures like the Mayans and the Aztecs. I haven't taken any Anthropology but we studied them extensively in 7th grade (So long ago..) and I remember just being hooked on learning every little thing. I found it so interesting how precise they made things, their interesting calendar projecting the death of the world..it scares me because everything they had predicted was right and the culture was just shocking..but so amazingly interesting.

Answer 4

I am fascinated by anthropology because currently there is an explosion of knowledge in this field, especially from genetics, revealing for the first time the ancient wanderings of our ancestors. I am now rereading "Before the Dawn" by Nicholas Wade(2006). I only read this book a year ago; I seldom reread books and then only after many years. But I find this book so full of interest that my mind wants to acquire all of it.

Answer 5

I became an atheist after I studied anthropology in college.

Answer 6

I like studying different culture groups. Its so exciting to experience the diversity of the culture in the world. My first encounter with different cultural system came for going to Peru and studying the ancient civilization. Its kind of a rush that's unlike anything else.

Answer 7

I love the uncertainty & discovery part of Anthropology.  It is almost like investigating a long past crime & sifting through the evidence.  Any small discovery becomes important to solving the puzzle & I must constantly re-evaluate what I know & what I suspect.

I also love the "what if" & imagination portion of anthropology that so differs from the exacting science of engineering for which I was educated.