Tag: Anthropology

In the history of anthropology, in the late 19th to early 20th centuries, when anthropology was becoming an academic discipline, it focused on studying the origin of humanity and “primitive” human beings. Anthropology has rarely studied “spirituality” as such, but, broadly...

What is Anthropology Anthropology deals with the scientific study of humanity, which relates to human behavior, societies, and cultures. In simple words, we can say that Anthropology is the study of human behaviors. If we look at the word, ‘Anthropology’, it consists of ‘...

Whilst it is easy to assume anthropology is merely descriptive and theology is normative, ‘Each discipline has both normative and descriptive impulses’. (p. 9) Theology seeks to imagine a new world and to call the world to move towards that direction (p. 10). Anthropology, however, is...

Anthropology has been seen as a discipline that studies people and their culture. An anthropologist is capable to understand humans deeper than any other discipline, although it is rarely seen that they are experts in their practical context. The legacy of classical anthropology — such as Mali...

Forensic anthropologists study human remains: bones and soft tissue of deceased people. They are trained to carefully recover human remains, to examine them to figure out who a person was, and to determine as much as possible about what happened to them around death. They are called upon when s...

Have you ever engaged in an Asian family gathering? Instead of asking some general questions such as “How are you?” or “How’s life?” they prefer to ask you a really specific question and throw you some critiques afterward. Take note that it not only occurs at family gat...