anthropology?

Question

i'm a freshman in high school and i want to be an anthropologist. most kids my age don't even know what that is, but i've wanted to be a scientist since 4th grade. is that odd?

Answer 1

Depending on your definition of "odd", it could be if you want it to mean "unusual". But is it bad? Not at all. You have a dream, a vision, and that drives you. That can only be good, and you were possibly more mature than other kids your age. So go for it, and good luck.

Answer 2

Odd? No! We need more young people like you. So, you want to study Mankind, eh? Which branch of Anthropology are you interested in:

In North America, "anthropology" is traditionally divided into four sub-disciplines:

Physical anthropology, or biological anthropology, which studies primate behavior, human evolution, osteology, forensics, and population genetics;

Cultural anthropology (called social anthropology in the United Kingdom and now often known as socio-cultural anthropology), which studies social networks, diffusion, social behavior, kinship patterns, law, politics, ideology, religion, beliefs, patterns in production and consumption, exchange, socialization, gender, and other expressions of culture, with strong emphasis on the importance of fieldwork or participant observation (that is, living among the social group being studied for an extended period of time);

Linguistic anthropology, which studies variation in language across time and space, the social uses of language, and the relationship between language and culture, and
Archaeology, which studies the material remains of human societies. Archaeology itself is normally treated as a separate (but related) field in the rest of the world, although closely related to the anthropological field of material culture, which deals with physical objects created or used within a living or past group as a means of understanding its cultural values.

More recently, some anthropology programs began dividing the field into two, one emphasizing the humanities and critical theory, the other emphasizing the natural sciences and empirical observation.

Answer 3

i dont think so.

as for anthropology... go for it... but be aware that it is a tough study in a field that used to be quite staic but has become one of the more dynamic fields of research over the last years... new methods allow much better interpretations of findings, both new AND previous... practically the whole field has to be re-evalued in light of recent discoveries... positively fascinating, but not exactly high paying.

Answer 4

no. i wanted to be a scientist when i was really young. just meant i took a heavy load of math and science which you should do too.

Answer 5

I understand fully. I felt the same way. I did not however fulfill that dream. Shame on me.