Ideas in Action: Sharing Resources - Anthropology For High School Students
"Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess." - Margaret Mead Having spent two years in pandemic lockdown, in some ways returning to school can be a welcome relief. And when returning to school also means starting high school - it’s a whole different experience. I have been interested in biology and specifically learning more about the human body to promote health and prevent illnesses. In talking with an acquaintance about some of my current interests, I was recently introduced to Anthropology. This is the first time, I had heard of it - t here was no mention of this field of study in my high school curriculum, so I started to explore it on my own. In this post, I am going to share my initial thoughts and some resources that have been quite helpful in getting to know more about Anthropology as a field. Simply put, Anthropology can be described as the science...