What on the Earth is Anthropology?

Question

What on the Earth is Anthropology?

Answer 1

Studying culture by comparing your own culture with different cultures to find out whats similar and what´s different.

Answer 2

Anthrolopology is the study of Humanity.

Answer 3

anthropology [ánthrə pólləji]

noun

1.  study of humankind: the study of humankind in all its aspects, especially human culture or human development.

It differs from sociology in taking a more historical and comparative approach.

2.  Christian doctrine concerned with humankind: the parts of Christian doctrine that are concerned with the nature, origin, and destiny of humankind

Answer 4

The scientific study of the origin, the behavior, and the physical, social, and cultural development of humans

Answer 5

Anthropology is the study of the origins and social relationships of human beings.

Answer 6

It is the study of man.

It derives from the greek words

Anthropos = Man

Pology (i think) = Study

Answer 7

Anthropology is the study of the impact that culture has on man's behaviour,thinking,value system, belief  and to sum total, its impact on his exisitence.

To make it more simple,let me put it that way, we human beings belonging to different cultures are different in our thinking and value sysytem because we differ in our cultures.

The way we think about committment, marriage, children and how we should reaer them are all governed by the culture we grew up in and fing ourselves in.

Anthroplogy is behavioral science and is relatively a modern day science.The Brtish were very good at it.Their administrators understood the history nad culture of the Indians and used it to keep us under them for centuries.