Saturday, July 10, 2010

Purpose of Anthropology

Anthropology is social science which deals with culture, society, history of human and its biological and social evolution. Anthropology has been interested in cultural traditions, art, music, dance, literature, folk studies, beliefs, magic and all other super natural phenomenon.
Basically anthropology is inter-disciplinary subject and its scope and area of study is very wide. Applied anthropology has been major subject for people who are working with communities for their betterment, or project management for communities. Economic anthropology help us to understand economy , its history , major concepts and how it affect social customs and behaviours.
Anthropology re-interpret  pre-historic material to find out clear picture of human evolution . Medical Anthropology deals with community medicine which has been neglected by modern medical scientist due to colonial influence of west. Our history can be corrected but its need energy , honesty, and sources for research work



 

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