Anthropology - Mind Map

Anthropology

Description

Anthropology is the study of humanity and human behaviors as well as human biology, cultures, societies, and linguistics, in both the present and past, including past human species.

The importance of Anthropology

allows us to study human existence

it helps us find the unknown

we find the answers to questions about yourself

it helps us to connect everybody around the globs and how the society and behaviors of humans came to be

it helps us figure out why we are and why we make the decisions that we do

Theorists of Anthropology

Ruth Fulton Benedict

culture is "personality writ large"

Franz Boas

he has a theory of "cultural relativism"

Margret Mead

she came up with the idea that children learn from adult behavior

Marvin Harris

He believed that cultures consist of an infrastructure of production and reproduction a culture based structure for economics

Key Concepts and terminology explained

Society

Humans are very social creatures and therefore rely on society to help us live together as humans; this is why different societies live together in different ways-different societies have different standards and excpectations.

Society in anthropology refers to a general aspect of a human condition.

Identity

the uniqueness of oneself that makes them different from others.

who people are, compared to other people with a different identity.

Change

Reformulation within a group of people in society.

Change is the reformulation of multiple thongs. for example innovation, invention or even discovery.

Culture

a shared set of ideas or beliefs and behaviors.

they have a set group of rules that they function well with while using. and different standards compared to others.

Jobs in Anthropology

University proffesor

Forensic scientist

Museum technician

primatologist

archaeologist

medical anthropologist

paleontologist

Market research analyst

questions people ask about anthropology

how did humans evolve?

how do people adapt to different environments?

how has society developed?

how have things changed over the past 100 years?

is it still often studied in today's society?

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