ANTHROPOLOGY

The Relevance of Anthropology to Tourism



The Relevance of Anthropology to Tourism

Introduction

Anthropology is the study of the human kind. It studies the comparativeness of human societies and cultures and their development. Tourism is pertinent to numerous real world and theoretical issues in anthropology.There is a lot in common beteeen tourists and anthropologists. Both of them spend time in discovering the cultural productions and society rituals. All people have been touched in some way by tourism in every society (Stronza 2001, pp. 261-265). Tourism continues to expand across the world, not just in terms of numbers of arrivals but also in the types of its impact and its increase in global importance. Tourism is intrinsic to lifestyles and has had a profound impact on people of the world and the environment in which they live.

Discussion

Anthropology is the study of people throughout the world. It is the study about human evolutionary history, how they behave, adapt to different environments and how they socialize and communicate with each other. The study of anthropology is concerned with both the biological features and social aspects that make us human. Whether it is about studying about a community in United Kingdom or the evolutionary fossils of human in the UAE, anthropologists are concerned with many aspects of lives of the people. It is a comparative and generalizing order with a distress for consideration of diversity of human on a worldwide scale. Anthropologists connect themselves in experiential research with recognized theories, analytical techniques and methods. In order to study humans, they conduct laboratory analyses, archival investigations and field based research.

Anthropologists have concerns about studying the every day practices as well as the more dramatic ceremonies and rituals that define us as humans. The study is undertaken by anthropologists who search for to explaining the human deeds and understaning the varied ways people systematize their lives. The ethnographic information have been gathered by anthropologists on many cultural groups; it is far more than a container for knowledge regarding culture. Anthropology like most of other disciplines is being progressively more confronted to validate its significance and subsistence in modern society (Fedorak 2007, pp. 24-25). In present world, Anthropology has become more involved and self reflexive with centre of population and social divergence as anthropologists are gradually more applying their studies to real world social subjects and their subject matter as collaborators and colleagues. Anthropology go beyond what are generally perceived as intellectual boundaries separating social science, humanities and natural science.

Social anthropology studies the human behaviour and consideration in their social backgrounds. It is customary for human beings to be fascinated by the unlike estimations and actions of others around the world. People around the globe differ in terms of communal, cultural and political forms, and their individual members display an initially overwhelming diversity of actions and ideas. Social anthropology studies the human kind in terms of who people are what their social and cultural existence is. The diversity amongst people and the general reactions to the disputes of being ...