Cultural anthropology aesthetic

Franz Boas, Margaret Mead, and their circle sought to show the fallacy of biological and physical difference, but they also created new forms of categorization that reinforced their underlying biases.

A 2019 study published in Science Advances analyzed ancient DNA. It showed that the Philistines had European ancestry; more than did earlier and later inhabitants of the region.

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I hope i can double major in cultural anthropology along with whatever else i pick. this is a picture of an anthropologist doing their fieldwork.

In the 150 years since Charles Darwin speculated that humans originated in Africa, the number of species in the human family tree has exploded, but so has the level of dispute concerning early human evolution. Fossil apes are often at the center of the debate, with some scientists dismissing their importance to the origins of the human lineage (the "hominins"), and others conferring them starring evolutionary roles. A new review out on May 7 in the journal Science looks at the major…

Historical anthropology is a subfield of anthropology that focuses on the study of human societies and cultures over time. It examines the ways in which cultural practices, beliefs, and values have changed and evolved

One neglected aspect of the story of Modernity has been the loss of a Christian anthropology. Along with its exile of God, Modernity has also been busily re-defining humanity with unhappy consequences. Through two world wars, abortion, genocides, "eugenics," Communist purges, etc. "Enlightened man" has murdered more humans in the…