Instead anthropologists seek to understand human beings and the human experience in all their complexity, combining the best of different disciplines, of the sciences and humanities. Anthropology is a thriving, complex discipline that studies almost everything in human culture and history.
Anthropology provides a different point of view in understanding the human experience.
The other introductory course, A105, covers the other two. The course has three major goals. First , it presents the state of knowledge in the discipline today and shows how anthropology has changed and grown through discovery, research and self-criticism. Second , it will show you some of the variety of human cultures on this planet, emphasizing their diversity and richness, as well as the common threads that tie all human societies together. 2 nd edition.