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What is Anthropology?
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Anthropology is Growing
• Growing as undergraduate major, in U.S.
and internationally
• 21% projected job growth by 2020, faster
than average
– U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
• Record attendance 2010-2011 American
Anthropological Association meetings
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What Anthropology Asks
• Study of humanity and
human origins
• “a scholarly discipline
that aims to describe in
the broadest possible
sense what it means to
be human”
– Lavenda and Schultz
2012:5
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Fields of Anthropology
• Biological Anthropology
• Archaeology
• Sociocultural Anthropology
• Linguistic Anthropology
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Anthropology is Field-Based
• Emphasizes empirical study with
extended periods of data collection
or ethnographic fieldwork
• Study with people
• Seek meanings and interpretation of
data
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Scientific Humanism
Humanistic Science
• the most scientific
of the humanities,
the most humanist
of sciences
– Eric Wolf,
Anthropology,
1964:88
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Anthropology is Active
• My whole outlook upon social life is
determined by the question: how can we
recognize the shackles that tradition has
laid upon us? For when we recognize
them, we are also able to break them
– Franz Boas, “An Anthropologist’s Credo” in The
Nation, 1938:202
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Anthropology Needs You
• Taking account of such tiny
vistas has long been the
work of anthropologists
• Enlarging them is work for
all of us
– Elizabeth Chin, Purchasing
Power 2001:179
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