Anthropology: Age, Gender and Culture

Running Head: Anthropology
Anthropology
Age, Gender and Culture

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Anthropology
Contents
Introduction.................................................................................................................................................2
Anthropology of Ageing...............................................................................................................................2
Anthropology of Gender..............................................................................................................................3
Anthropology of Culture..............................................................................................................................5
Conclusion...................................................................................................................................................6
References...................................................................................................................................................7

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Anthropology
Introduction
The topic of anthropology is very wide in terms of researches and studies done on it. This is the
study of humans who live all across the world, the history of those humans and their behavior as
to how they adapt with the atmosphere which surrounds them and how they socialize with each
other (Prasojo, 2013). This study is basically linked with the biological features which make
people as humans. The studies about the humans include physiology, genetics, evolution,
nutrition history and social aspects like language and culture etc. In the anthropology of age, the
understanding and disclosing is studied of the age and ageing complexity (Moore & Romney,
2002). In the gender anthropology, there comes the study of all genders like men, women and
children. The anthropology related to the culture involves observation of the participant called
fieldwork as this needs anthropologist to spend time in taking the surveys and the interviews to
study the culture. All these three topics gender, age and culture are discussed in this report with
their rationales and arguments.
Anthropology of Ageing
Anthropologists who study biological anthropology strictly follow the tradition of studying about
the development and the growth on the existence, history and early hominid populations. Also,
ageing displays the era of the life cycle where there exists the minimum contribution in the
evolution of population.
According to Gillian (2003), the survey was taken related to the biological anthropologists and
the human biologists, and also about the ageing process. From that survey, it was found out that
over course of hominid evolution, the life span of humans have increased in the most dramatic
way (Ice, 2003). If checked on the algometric relations, it is estimated that the minimum lifespan
is increased from 53 years from Australopithecines to 122 years for the modern humans. The
expectancy of life, though, has been low as compared to the years of Australopithecines. Then
the expectancy of life was 25 years or lesser than that till most of the recent centuries came into
picture.