Bachelor of Arts [B.A] [Anthropology] From Pacific Lutheran University

Core to is the concept of culture.??Culture is shared, learned, adaptable, and changing.? It is learned attitudes, beliefs and ideals shared by a group. Anthropology studies cultures as they are?without?ethnocentrism?through ethnology and ethnography.??Traditional methods employed by anthropologists are participant observation, surveys, interviews, archival research, life histories, genealogies, and photography.

There are four fields in anthropology:

• Cultural:??Studies contemporary cultures in an effort to create cross-cultural understanding.
• Linguistic:? Studies the use of language and communication systems and how they relate to human behavior.
• Physical:??Studies human evolution from our earliest hominid ancestry to modern human biological variation.
• Archaeology:??Studies past cultures through the physical remains they have left behind.

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