BA in Anthropology

Anthropology is a general and comparative social and cultural science. It deals with the diversity of human ways of life and highlights the similarities and differences. It looks at the societies, social groups, and everyday worlds that it covers, within the context of political, economic and cultural networks and structures, which are also affected by global processes. Anthropologists have therefore long been expanding their focus from non-industrial, non-literate societies outside Europe to include aspects such as transnational migration, the impacts of urbanization, and the revitalization or creation of new traditions as part of political transformations. Anthropological methods are also used when researching small, industrial communities (e.g. societies, sects, industrial companies, bureaucracies, ethnic movements, transnational networks) in and outside Europe. In this way, anthropology also applies a critical approach to addressing the cultural and social relativity of our own European ways of life and thinking.