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CULTURAL
ANTHROPOLOGY
STUDENT DETAILS
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CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY 1
Cultural anthropology deals with variety of human cultural. It incorporates the study of social
structure, language, religion, their lifestyle, their ancestral values, etc. Apart from this, the
three main branches of cultural anthropology are defined as archaeology, anthropological
linguistics and ethnology. Anthropology provides the tools to navigate complexity in the
cultural diversity around the world most effectively and efficiently. In this essay, the study of
cultural anthropology will be done through various literature.
According to Carroll (2006), people in China integrated with other people who belong from
different cultural to transform the Suzhou city (In the Twilight of the Quin Dynasty) in the
modern city. The author has identified the cultural diversity by considering the experience of
various groups such as poor and business elites people, the relationship among Chinese
people with foreigners, local people with outsiders, etc. All these experiences will help the
administration of the Suzhou city to form better aspirations for cultural diversity. This city
will incorporate the norms of social organizations, cultural architecture, etc. Apart from this,
the author also concluded that economic development in Suzhou city will benefit all the
communities equally without any interpretation because the urban development brings out the
mutual benefit in the effective and efficient way possible. In the end, this literature concluded
about respecting cultural diversity through the study of cultural anthropology, helps state
officials and local politicians in making efficient Western Urban planning in Suzhou city1.
According to Henderson (2012), Suzhou city is counted as the great garden city in the entire
universe because this city incorporates the great masterpiece of Chinese garden design that
built in the 11th century. The design of the garden which was built in the 11th Century still
fascinates millions of visitors and still fascinates international designers’. The gardens of
Suzhou city also took place in the UNESCO world heritage cultural. Apart from this, the
author also described that the garden of the Suzhou incorporates the designs which are made
1 Carroll, Between heaven and modernity: Reconstructing Suzhou, 1895.
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CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY 2
by the intellectuals in order to draw China’s rich traditions with cultural embedding.
Moreover, the gardens of Suzhou fascinate people from all over the world and it also
fascinates people from different cultural diversity because of its astonishing work and
showcasing effects2.
According to Koss (2015), the study of Chinese history can be done effectively in the
embedded patter of the 20th Century. The administration of two cities Suzhou and Wuxi
decided to form the museums which will demonstrate the Chinese history and perspective of
the ruler of these cities. The perspective of the ruler of these cities defines urban planning
because it is a great way to promote economic growth and to respect cultural diversity. Like
that, these museums will demonstrate the perspective of the rules, the process of making
urban planning in the past centuries, reveals about the programs, inhering development, etc.
The author has also concluded that the idea of museums for showcasing the history of urban
planning is great because it will send the message to the rest of the world that Suzhou city
and Wuxi city always welcomes the urban planning with cultural diversity from past many
centuries3.
According to Chao (1995), a Positive effect on the physiology and psychology condition
through Chinese medicines fascinate millions of people throughout many centuries. This
literature focuses on the medicines and physicians in Suzhou. This literature incorporates the
four topics such as: Confucian physicians, Cold damage for febrile disorders, Warm factor –
it incorporates practitioners and the professionalization, and Progenitors. Physicians in
Suzhou utilized their study through these four linked topics. Apart from this, it is assumed
that it is mandatory for the physicians in the Tang dynasty to worship medical arts so that
2 Henderson, The gardens of Suzhou, 102.
3 Koss, Beautiful Su: A social and cultural history of Suzhou, 101.
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