Be an anthropologist 3

            Running Head: BE AN ANTHROPOLOGIST

Be an Anthropologist

Luquan smith

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(College)

10^th November 2010

Introduction

Culture is at times observed as common set of visible characters, customs, language, family, lifestyle, linage and communication inside a group of human beings.  Because culture is learned, human beings living in various places have different cultures.  

Discussion

Cultural anthropology helps us frame how people have different roles in a family in various cultures. It also explains different lifestyles of various age groups in a certain culture and how they communicate. Different cultures have different lineage in their family set up, for example in African cultures a son belong to the lineage of his father and speak his language.    

Language is not just a means of communication, but there is more to it. It manipulates our culture as well as our thoughts. In the first four decades of the previous century, language was observed by some linguist and anthropologists as more significant than it really is in determining our awareness of reality (Moore, 1998). 

Cultural evolution is as a result of the cumulative outcome of culture. We now recognize that the era between significant cultural creations has become progressively shorter, specifically from the time when the creation of agriculture years ago. The steadily larger human growth after that era was incredibly likely both a result and a cause of speeding up cultural growth. The larger the population, the more possibility of fresh ideas and information will build up (Ferraro, 2006). If those thoughts result in a superior, more comfortable food supplies, the populace will certainly grow. Human beings also adopt a certain lifestyle to suit their environment and their culture. In a sense, society has been the human answer to living in changing surroundings, but it has endlessly compounded the concern by making it feasible for more individuals to stay alive. In other words, cultural evolution can be observed as unraveling a concern that causes the same worry now and then. 

References:

Moore, A. (1998). Cultural Anthropology: The Field Study of Human Beings. 2nd Ed.

Washington: Rowman & Littlefield.

Ferraro. (2006). Cultural anthropology: an applied perspective. 6th Ed. New York:

Cengage Learning.