Anthropology is the study of cultures and people across the world. How one culture can endure struggles and continues to stay alive while others fall. It is these people and cultures that tell us where we originated as a species, how we have evolved and similarities we all possess. Some of the key research methods of Anthropology are: Participant observation, Cross-culture comparison, survey research, interviews, archival research, media analysis, and historical analysis. These principals are the backbone to our knowledge of our past and the destiny of our future. Participant observation involves a researcher, or researchers, living within a given culture for an extended period of time. They take part in daily rituals trying to do research and experience the culture from within. Cross-culture comparison uses field data from many societies to examine human behavior. This cross-examination test hypotheses about human nature, behavior, and culture. Where as survey research is specific......
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