What Is Anthropology During This Semester, I Grasped A

What is Anthropology? During this semester, I grasped a better understanding of human-kind through the explanation of culture and biology. I learned a lot about how people live in different regions of the world and how cultures are linked. I believe that because we questioned what we knew about human diversity in the past, we have gained a better idea of the people and the world around us. People like Sebastian Munster, who drew maps of new lands and kept a catalog of human diversity, Caption Cook, who find new regions from his voyages around the world, Johnaan Blumenback, the first anthropologists who divided the human species through common origin, E.B. Taylor, who could express stages of cultural evolution and the progress, and so many†¦show more content†¦Some of the methods I used during my ethnographic research consisted of interviewing, observing, detailed records, unobstructed view, and a written account. I wanted to keep each interview in chronological order, so I a m going to talk about events in the order in which they happened in her life. One of the first interviews I conducted of my mother was when I took her to her doctor’s appointment on Friday, March 5th, because of procrastination, I had little time to write this paper, so I conducted interviews whenever and wherever I could. We first talked about her ancestral background or genealogy, which includes her parents, grandparents, and great grandparents on both sides. On Debra’s mother’s side of the family or maternal side, she was told that her great grandparents were born in Portugal, that they migrated from Portugal, approximately before 1910 in search of the â€Å"American Dream.† They migrated for the better opportunities that were present in the united states at the time, she is not quite she exactly when and why but the gold rush could have been a possible reason. Her great grandmother, name unknown, was 100% Portuguese and her great grandfather, name unk nown, was 100% Portuguese. Debra recalls at the age of 5 years old, she had an opportunity to meet her great grandmother who at the time she remembers being bedridden. She only remembers meeting her one time and is unsure of the reason why she was not able to see her more than just that once.