Anthropology: Examining the Physical and Cultural Characteristics of Hu

Anthropology Examining the Physical and Cultural Characteristics of HumankindThis course has provided interesting field studies of cultures that are drastically divergent than what I would consider everyday life. Anthropology examines not only who we are as a people, but also, importantly, who we were as a people. The studies of sometime(prenominal) cultures is a good prepare to start to answer questions about societies and cultures today, and to bridge together the gap between the past and present, and maybe even predict where we are headed in the future.Anthropology spans millions of generations, examining the physical and cultural characteristics of humankind. Often the artifacts recovered from a past civilization can tell us a great deal about how those people lived, their level of technology, their patterns of subsistance, and so on. Anthropology uses methods and tools from multiple scientific disciplines, such as the scientific method which allows the testing of falsifi able hypotheses. This approach seems to be a strong basis for many of the contrasting areas of anthropology, namely archeology, ethnology, and linguistics.I had thought that male dominance and superiority (man the hunter model) was a highly conserved cultural characteristic in past societies, and even in many less developed areas of the world today. I was surprised by the case studies of the Kung San (traditional foraging society, not sedentary), in which females were just as important as males in...