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Social anthropology is the study of human society and cultures through a comparative lens. Social anthropologists seek to understand how people live in societies and how they make their lives meaningful.
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The first simple definition of social anthropology could be: it’s a branch of study that looks at the different customs, beliefs, and practices of people from around the world. It’s like a map that guides us through the ways different societies celebrate, mourn, work, play, and bond with each other.
Social anthropology uses very practical, empirical methods to investigate some quite philosophical-looking problems about the nature of human life in society. Learning to relate different versions of the world to each other is learning to be a Social Anthropologist and it is what we hope you will learn over the course of your degree.
Briefly, when social anthropologists speak of social relaiions they have in mind the ways in which people behave when other people are objects of that behaviour. At this preliminary level there are always two basic facts to be ascertained about any social relationship; what it is about, and whom it is between.
Social Anthropology is a branch of anthropology dedicated to the study of patterns of behavior, cultural norms, and social institutions in human societies. It provides insights into how societies organize, interact, and evolve.
The course also provides tools for thinking about moral decisions as social and historical practices, and permits students to compare and contextualize the ways people in different times and places approach fundamental ethical concerns.
Anthropology is the study of people throughout the world, their evolutionary history, how they behave, adapt to different environments, communicate and socialise with one another. The study of anthropology is concerned both with the biological features that make us human (such as physiology, genetic makeup, nutritional history and evolution) and with social aspects (such as Anthropology is the ...
