ANTHROPOLOGY

AND
THE STUDY OF CULTURE

Presented By :
Chenchen C. Rin
Vhon Espinosa
 Anthropology
• Anthropology promotes a holistic study of humans.
• It derived from the Greek word antropos (human) and
logos (study).
• It allows and extensive and inclusive approach such
that anthropology studies human as both biological and
social creatures.
 Biologically

It requires composition of human

relationship
and
evolution.
 Socially
• Behavior
• Attitudes
• Belief Systems
 Five Subdisciplines of
Anthropology
ARCHEOLOGICAL

CULTURAL LINGUISTIC

PHYSICAL APPLIED
 CULTURE

Culture is everything that a

person learns as a member of
society.
Culture is Everything Culture is Learned Culture is Shared

It is what people has, Culture is a belief, attitudes, Culture is shared

does and thinks in and practices that individual
intergenerationally.
society. learns through his/her
Share a culture must be
It consist of material family, school, church and
taught to a member of
and nonmaterial other institution.
contemporary society.
Culture Affect Biology Culture is Adaptive

Culture is a tool for survival

Humans are born into that humans use in response
cultures that have values to the pressure of their
on beauty and body. environment.
Culture is Maladaptive Culture Changes

Culture can also cause The final characteristics

problems to the people. of culture is that it is
These problems arise never static.
when environment has
changed and culture has
remaind the same.
 Theories
on Culture
 Anthropology in the 21st Century

The key strength of anthropology as a discipline of the social science is its

holistic approach to the study of humans.
It is holistic in the sense that studies:
• Humans, both as biological and social creatures.
• Human Behavior from the time species existed to the time that it will
desist.
• Human behavior from all regions of the world;
• All forms of human actions and beliefs.
Thank You