Title: Why Anthropology? | Anthropology | Mesa Community College
Headings: Why Anthropology?
Why Anthropology?
Content: the study of human social and cultural behavior; Linguistics: the study of human language, its construction, and how it is used in societies; Physical or Biological: the study of human biological diversity, primate behavior, and evolution of humans over time (paleoanthropology); Archaeology: the study of the human past through material remains with the aim of reconstructing, ordering and describing the daily life, customs, and events of past people. Collectively these disciplines provide anthropology with a background of information that helps us build a wide-ranging understanding of humanness itself. It would not be possible to fully appreciate what makes us human without this broad and holistic perspective. Anthropologists also look for similarities and differences between people and their cultures by using a cross-cultural approach to answer questions.