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Cultural anthropological points of view

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(Adapted from Cultural Anthropology. Used under the educational "fair use" provision of the U.S. Copyright Acts.) Scholars in many disciplines focus their studies on human beings. The main differences between the disciplines are not the objects of their study or their methods. The differences are in the points of view that guide their inquiries. Modern atomic physicists, for example, might view a person as a perpetual dance of atomic particles. Engineers working with automobile safety are concerned with the effects of mass and inertia on the human body in accidents while microbiologists see the human being as a mass of corpuscles, cells, and bacterial organisms. The questions scholars ask of their data are based in part on their own interests and experiences and in part on the kinds of questions other scholars in their fields are asking in conjunction with the theories that have developed within their disciplines. In short, an academic discipline is a point of view, a way of looking at

Cultural Anthropological Points of View Anthropological Points of View Cultural differences can easily be seen at the level of behavior. They are also found in the basic assumptions people make about the nature of the world around them and in their concepts of right and wrong. The ways people perceive and organize their worlds mean that people do not simply live in the same world with different labels attached. They actually live in different worlds. A culture is the creation of a group of people, while a society is the group of people itself. The boundaries of a particular culture are determi

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