the.com/anthropologist
Someone who flew around the world to confirm that humans are weird everywhere.
means A scholar who studies human societies, cultures, and behavior, often by living among the people they study.
from Built from Greek anthropos ('human being') and -logia ('study of'), the same -logy suffix that gives us biology and psychology. The term crystallized in the 19th century as a formal scientific discipline, though 'anthropo-' roots had been used in English since at least the 1600s to describe things relating to humankind — before it meant a job, it just meant 'about humans.'
- fieldwork ritual
- lives with strangers to understand your cousins better
- founding flex
- invented culture as an excuse, not an insult
- occupational hazard
- starts analyzing Thanksgiving dinner as a ritual
- core belief
- normal is just a place you have not traveled yet