Anthropology For Dummies
Chapter One
Human Beings and Being Human:
An Overview of Anthropology
In This Chapter
* Discovering what anthropology is and how it studies the human species
* Exploring the Indiana Jones stuff: Physical anthropology and archaeology
* Checking out how cultures and languages fit into anthropology
* Finding out how modern anthropology analyzes human issues today
Why isn't everyone the same? Why do people worldwide have differences
in skin and hair color and ways of greeting one another? Why
doesn't everyone speak the same language?
Questions like these have fascinated humanity for as long as we have written
records - and I'm sure people thousands and even tens of thousands of
years before writing was invented asked the same things (in whatever language
they used.) Why don't those people do things the way I do? What's wrong
with them, anyway? Of course, people from that other group just on the next
hilltop were scratching their heads and asking exactly the same questions.
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