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Granada, Spain

University of Granada

Social and Cultural Anthropology

Antropología Social y Cultural

Bachelor's

Language: Spanish Studies in Spanish

Subject area: social

University website: www.ugr.es

Anthropology

Anthropology is the study of humans and human behaviour and societies in the past and present. Social anthropology and cultural anthropology study the norms and values of societies. Linguistic anthropology studies how language affects social life. Biological or physical anthropology studies the biological development of humans.

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Social

Living organisms including humans are social when they live collectively in interacting populations, whether they are aware of it, and whether the interaction is voluntary or involuntary.

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Anthropology

Teaching and research are not to be confused with training for a profession. Their greatness and their misfortune is that they are a refuge or a mission.

Claude Lévi-Strauss (1955) Tristes Tropiques. Chapter 6 : The Making of an Anthropologist, p. 55

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Anthropology

Anthropology is never an exact science; the observer never experiences the same culture as the participant.

Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the Dead, (1986)

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Anthropology

Anthropology has reached that point of development where the careful investigation of facts shakes our firm belief in the far-reaching theories that have been built up. The complexity of each phenomenon dawns on our minds, and makes us desirous of proceeding more cautiously. Heretofore we have seen the features common to all human thought

Franz Boas (1898/1975) Facial paintings of the Indians of northern British Columbia. p. 4

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