Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess.
Margaret Mead
Anthropology is one of the branches of Social Science. It studies us, human beings, and aims to understand the relationship between our nature and the environment. The main fields of anthropology are physical and cultural.
When I think about anthropology the first image that comes to my mind is that of people excavating and trying to find remains of past civilizations. I just can imagine the excitement of finding objects, bones, structures or any other remains. All those traces of the past give us information about the generations that have lived before us and what was life like for them. But this field is more than that, it is not just the study of the past, it also studies human today. It studies the subcultures and subgroups of the world.
People fascinate me, I love to learn about their language, their culture, the reason why they do what they do, and their lifestyle and how they view the world. It is always so much to learn from each other. Recently I took a cultural anthropology class and it makes me realize that this is what I love and a path that I would like to follow in the future.
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