The word Anthropology comes from the combination of the Greeks: Anthropos (Man) and Logos (Knowledge) for which we determine that anthropology is the science that studies man and his behavior in society, taking into account each of the characteristics of his evolution. Anthropology describes how important civilization is, how man has developed in history, from prehistoric times when they were nomads and traveled the panguea in search of security and knowledge until the era of colonization, when he understood that the settlement and use of the earth's own resources were more feasible for the development of human life.
The different cultures that man has created and spread throughout the world have formed a rich and complex concept of the human being, anthropology has analyzed each of them, through hypothetical, substantial and empirical study processes in order to obtain the resolution of the various civil conflicts that have occurred in history. Man and the variety of cultures have led the world down a path of constant fluctuations between peace and war,
The development of anthropology in large countries has helped to strengthen identity as nations, since events such as world wars, for example, leave traces on those who suffer losses and deaths, tearing in some cases, the existing cultural ties in the world. country. However, anthropology as a science in search of collective benefit delves into the search for methods to improve the good living of man.
Nowadays, anthropology receives a complete transformation, since the excessive increase in profit among people and the modernization of human ethics have led man to other types of interests on which anthropology was not founded.
It is divided into 4 main branches for its concentrated study: Social anthropology, already mentioned, for the study of man's behavior in the face of society and its cultures, Biological anthropology, aimed at discovering the ways in which the human body develops and adapts to the new needs dictated by natural laws, linguistic anthropology, which studies languages and codes of communication between humans and archaeological anthropology, the latter, very famous in recent years as she tries to discover in ancient architectural structures how and why they were erected.
