Nancy Scheper HughesThinkers

Anthropology is concerned with questions such as whether (and in what way) human behaviors or traits are the result of biological, genetic 'inheritance' or cultural shaping and social learning.

Anthropology is concerned with questions such as whether little girls are 'feminine' and 'sensitive' in all cultures and societies.

Anthropology is concerned with questions such as whether marriage is always about love.

Anthropology is concerned with questions such as whether men in all societies aggressive and dominant.

Anthropology is concerned with questions such as whether people everywhere reason the same, and weather 1+1= 2 in every society, or whether we all see the same colors.

Anthropology is concerned with questions such as whether people in different cultures get sick or go ' crazy' in the same way and for the same reasons.

Anthropology is concerned with questions such as whether teenagers are rebellious in every society.

Anthropology is concerned with questions such as why American families have to live in nuclear households when in so many other cultures families were embedded in much larger extended households in which work, household maintenance, and child rearing could be shared among kin.

Anthropology is concerned with questions such as: What happens to couples where elders arrange marriages for their children' Do they come to love each other' Or is love, as we know it, beside the point'.

Anthropology is concerned with what is 'cultural' and what is 'natural'.

Anthropology's moral imperative is to act on the suffering and violence they witness in the course of their research.

Anthropology is the intimate and personal study of human cultures, societies, and changing social, economic and political situations in an increasingly globalized world.