Health Information Systems Project in Andhra Pradesh-Experiences from phcs in Kuppam

What is Social Anthropology?

• Social Anthropology is the comparative study of human conduct and thought in their social context.
• Societies around the world vary enormously in their social, cultural and political forms, and their individual members display an initially overwhelming diversity of ideas and behaviour.
• The study of these variations lies at the heart of Social Anthropology.

Definition of Anthropology

• The word anthropology itself tells the basic story--from the Greek anthropos ("human") and logia ("study“)
• It is the study of humankind, from its beginnings millions of years ago to the present day.
• Nothing human is alien to anthropology.
• Indeed, of the many disciplines that study our species, Homo sapiens, only anthropology seeks to understand the whole panorama--in geographic space and evolutionary time--of human existence.