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Essential Questions

  • ORIGINS- what did we come about, the nature of the transformation from one state of being into another, often framed in terms of "evolution" or "creation"- and as characterized in every origin account, the transformation is still in process and not completed, the answers to the essential questions still forthcoming

  • EPISTEMOLOGY- how we come to know and understand our state of being, our reality, framed in terms of literal, metaphoric and anagogic approaches

  • ONTOLOGY- what is the nature of our being, of reality it self - what is real - relating to such issues as "time," "space," "causation," and "truth"

Conclusion

What is ANTHROPOLOGY?

  • the study of humankind, especially of Homo Sapiens, the biological species to which we human beings belong
  • the study of how our species evolved from more primitive organisms
  • the study of how our species developed a mode of communication known as language and a mode of social life known as culture

Boys taking part in a ritual to mark the transition to manhood, Malawi

Distinguishing Characteristics/ Nature of Anthropology

We are species driven by "questions."

  • the study of how culture evolved and diversified
  • the study of how culture, people, and nature Interact wherever human beings are found
  • we all have "unresolved issues"
  • there are no other species or beings in existence that are so burdened

NATURE OF ANTHROPOLOGY

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