Many anthropologists are interested in faith-based origin stories and other beliefs because they show us how a particular group of people explain the world and their place in it.
Is there a connection/subfield that specifically pertains to this religious based connection? And are religious group fond of anthropology (in regards to the disbelief of evolution)?
identify population events, like a population decline
This reminds me of situations like people getting cancer from certain pesticides or women being exposed to chemicals/substances that can cause birth defects, or the results of housing being too close to facilities that cause air pollution. I think I remember hearing of a town whose population declined due to widespread infertility. Something that falls under the molecular anthropology subfield?
Eventually, as a physician, he would return to Haiti to treat diseases, like tuberculosis and cholera, that were rarely seen in the United States.
I'm sure that a large part of anthropology has to do with outside factors, especially given the consequences of lack of healthcare throughout history, hence the emphasis on shared information within the anthropological community. Outside circumstances such as climate and nature have bearing on what happens to a culture but so do factors such as capitalism and poverty
He wrote that Hopi has no grammatical tenses to convey the passage of time. Rather, Hopi language only indicates whether or not something has “manifested.” Whorf argued that English grammatical tenses (past, present, future) inspire a linear sense of time, while Hopi language inspires a cyclical experience of time (Whorf 1956).
This is so interesting, especially given the cultural implications of having such a curvy perception of time as a result of linguistic limits. Perhaps provoking religious/spiritual connotations?
Human behaviors are socially learned, contextual, and flexible, not innate.
like nature vs nurture? and what about free will?
By living with and observing the Trobrianders, he realized that their culture was not “savage,” but rather fulfilled the needs of the people.
This reminds me of the perspective most colonizing civilizations have of unknown cultures, like with the Native Americans and Caribbean tribes being described as "savages" simply for having different ways of life.