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Anthropology Exit ExamWhat is anthropology?Anthropology is a conglomeration of subfields that focus on the general study of humans. For a true specialist in the field of anthropology, anthropology is not just another field offered in an educational program such as biology and mathematics. Anthropology is a mindset and toolkit for understanding and classifying all aspects of human interaction from the past, present and future. An anthropologist's mindset is a unique personal characteristic, but each mindset shares common themes, as evidenced on page 75 of Wade Davis' book, The Serpent and the Rainbow. “Yet images alone cannot begin to express the cohesion of today's society, like psychic education, must be presented in the form of symbols, in invisible tones, felt as well as observed. “Being an anthropologist does not give a person of superhuman senses such a hearing ability to hear invisible tones, but it does allow every anthropologist to capture and the ability to take all the senses observed in human activity and break them down in order to be able to attach meaning to them so that they can be understood. When it comes to an anthropologist's educational toolkit, the most important feature is its holistic nature of unifying the subfields of anthropology; cultural, biological, linguistic and archaeological. The holistic nature of the toolkit can be represented by a rotating lens that an anthropologist uses to gain a multiple perspective on the area of study, from page 402 of David Anthony's book The Horse The Wheel and Language . Veda) and the AV (Avesta) agreed that the essence of their shared Indo-Iranian parental identity was linguistic and ritual, not racial. Beyond cultural diversity is the way humans vary in their behavior. Both culture and biological diversity are equally important when it comes to understanding and tolerating other humans. Global Society Anthropology provides the knowledge people need to think outside their own culture. Example; two men are watching television, one with some anthropological knowledge and the other with none, and a film comes on about African children going through a ritual to become manly. The man with a background in anthropology has the knowledge to think about similar rituals from his culture and understand the reasoning behind that ritual. Now the man without knowledge of anthropology would most likely be disgusted and hijack the channel. And that's a problem because the planet isn't that big anymore and people need to think and understand when they see things that aren't from their own culture..