GROUP 5

SAINT PHILIP OF JESUS

BELLO, Jerson Gyne KOMIYA, Alyssa

CASUGA, Denydone MANANSALA, Zhairralyn
MACABITAS, Carl Marvin OSTREA, Mary Jo
TOMANENG, Chandler Dann

As we grow, we begin to ask questions about ourselves out of curiousity and interest. As years
passed by, a science has been developed for us to explore more about humans, their behavior, physical
attributes and cultural differences both past and present. This is what we call anthropology. A study of
humans in all areas and in all periods of time. This word anthropology goes back to ancient Greece
where it was written by Aristotle as “anthropologos”. From the Greek words “anthropos” which means
human and “logos” meaning study or science. Anthropology then is distinct from other social sciences
in that it gives central attention to the full time span of human history. This answers questions related
to social, cultural, lingual, biological, historical etc. aspects that change over time.

Humanistic disciplines and areas form this group and each of those disciplines is specialized to
deal with a typical aspect of different groups of man therefore, none of these can cover up the whole
meaning of anthropology. Rather, anthropology is a much larger whole where different disciplines unite
together despite the diversity of their interest. It is the only branch of knowledge that has its own
distinctiveness which strives to study and understand humans and their actions in total.

Anthropology will not emerged without anthropologists who are people that offer a total study of
all aspects of culture and society, the evolutionary history, how humans behave, adapt to different
environments, and communicate and socialize with one another in an integrated and comprehensive
manner. Their interest to know why things happen led them to provide the knowledge, skills and tools
to work with people, study the past and shape the future. This information then puts us in a context
wherein we can understand and can either expand or apply in order to help ourselves and those around
us.

With the help of European explorers, anthropology emerged. As the shift in New World or North
America began, European migrant scholars coming from Germany and England raised it to a higher
level because of their wide knowledge and expertise. Before, the main aim of anthropology was to study
civilized, white people who were considered the most recent advancement on an evolutionary scale.
But as time passed by, anthropologists began to serch of exotic locations to study natives to map the
noble history of man. Their aim was to triumph over the culture shock that we feel when we travel to
another country by learning what it is like to be a native. Franz Boas, the father of American
Anthropology strongly believed that with the same methods, the study of humans and their uniqueness
would be much easier to understand until they are competent in being one of them.

As it grew, areas of anthropology wwere gradually studied by other anthropologists. Ruth

Benedict, the author of “Patters of Culture” demonstrated how small a portion of human behavior is
incorporated in a culture and that it is the traits and attitudes that define the individuals. She was a
colleague of Margaret Mead who studied sexual practices, behavior, and culture change of native
populations. “Coming of Age in Samoa” was her first book out of 23 that shows observations of her
data rather than statistics. Lastly, a major contributor to anthropology was a Polish anthropologist
named Bronislaw Malinowski who, in the 20th century, travelled from London to Papua New Guinea to
study native patters of exchange and was able to present a dynamic picture of social institutions of
actual behaviors. Malinowski then led the way for future anthropologists to look at cultural differences
without making arrogant judgements and to maintain an objective, scientific view of what is happening.