人类学文学士

人类学是对遥远的过去和现在的人类多样性的研究，它教会我们认识到人类在各种不同的环境中赖以生存并从中获得意义的条件。人类学还邀请人们对我们可能认为我们完全理解的行为进行更深入的分析，但这些历史和复杂性只会让我们仔细研究才能发现。我们力求了解人们行为及其影响的所有方面。这就是为什么我们要用当地语言进行长期的实地研究，并在复杂的环境中挖掘文物-从而全面了解社会生活的原因。最后，使熟悉的事物变得陌生需要道德和政治上的考虑。这意味着不接受给定的世界。这很可能是该学科的核心，也是其道德乐观主义：坚信事物可以变得更好和
Anthropology is the study of human diversity in the distant past and the present and teaches us to recognize the remarkable array of circumstances in which human beings live their lives and make meaning from them. Anthropology also invites deeper analysis of behaviors that we might think we fully understand but that have histories and complexities that only reveal themselves to careful investigation. We seek to understand the full context of people's actions and all that they impact. This is why we do long term field research in local languages, and excavate artifacts in their complicated contexts -- to understand social life in all its richness and depth. And finally, making the familiar strange demands an ethical and political accounting. It means not accepting the world as given. This might well be the heart of the discipline, its moral optimism: the conviction that things can be different and better -- and that knowledge about the world should be oriented towards greater empathy, solidarity, and equality.