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The diversity and commonalities of human cultures and societies lie at the heart of social and cultural anthropology. Anthropologists study the ways of life of local communities, as well as the regional, national and global interdependencies in which these communities are involved.
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.
Social anthropology is the study of all peoples everywhere – what they make, what they do, what they think and how they organise their social relationships and societies.
Social anthropology explores social and cultural differences and their determinants across local and global contexts. Material culture studies human, social and environmental relationships through the evidence of people's construction of their material world.
MSc and MPhil Courses. Social Anthropology. What is social anthropology? Image: an Angolan home, credit: Ramon Sarro. Social anthropology uses very practical, empirical methods to investigate some quite philosophical-looking problems about the nature of human life in society.
3 lip 2018 · Global and comparative perspective. The Department of Social Anthropology at Stockholm University is committed to a global and comparative perspective toward the diversity of social and cultural forms of the contemporary world. Its research encompasses all continents, and the interactions between them. It draws on the rich international ...
Social Anthropology is the comparative study of the ways in which people live in different social and cultural settings across the globe. Societies vary enormously in how they organise themselves, the cultural practices in which they engage, as well as their religious, political and economic arrangements.
