What is Anthropology?

Anthropology: The study of the lives and cultures of

humans alive or dead.

Anthropologists:

• Use reason to gain knowledge and insight into human kind
• Examine how humans live, think, communicate, produce and interact with their social and physical environment
• Study how different people can be and how much different people have in common

Physical Anthropology: The social science that seeks to

understand and define the physical or biological nature

of human beings.

Cultural Anthropology: The study of how culture shapes

human ideas and learned behaviour in societies around the

world.