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Cultural Anthropology

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Running Head: ANTHROPOLOGY 1

Anthropology is known as the study of human origins, cultures, and social behavior. It focuses its attention on man and how he interacts with himself and the outside world. It seeks to understand how he has influenced the society and how it has consequently influenced him. In our paper, we shall treat the market space. A market is where people meet to trade and exchange goods and services. In this space, we shall seek to understand how man interacts with the others in that localized space and how he behaves within the trade. We shall also identify the various trends and human traits brought to play during the interaction at the marketplace and how they all mesh into form the integral person.

Primarily as we stated; the marketplace is a designated area of trade. Here all cultures and peoples of all walks of life meet. They speak different languages and express themselves in different gestures. They can successfully interact and trade. Why? It's because the man, to begin with, is a social being. He was created as such and seeks to communicate with others of his kind. This trait is well played out in a marketplace. Not every attendee to the market trade. Some come to socialize, to meet friends, to see new things and products.

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In a marketplace, the real character and potential of man are unleashed and exemplified. Its starts from the way the market is divided and the various strategic points of greater sale that are established due to the customer traffic. The man is a dominating species. From his essence, he seeks to be the superior species and when within a category of his own, he aims to dominate other men. This behavioral anthropological trait of man makes him use his physic or wits to outwit others. He chooses the best place or vantage point in the marketplace as a point of sale for his goods. For instance, the space near the main market entrance is more lucrative than the desolate places at the interiors or back of the same location. In that designated area man brings out his originality by the way he arranges his selling space and how he manages to capture

the attention of the customers. Here the best adorned product sells the most at the highest price, what a man sells mostly identify with his personality and origin. Cultural artifacts and sentimental historical products always fetch the best prices. Man seeks to exemplify his origin, to underscore his culture and to relieve his memories. So between a cultural antique and a new pair of flashy shoes, expect that the former will fetch more at a higher price than the latter.

Biological anthropology is another field that comes to a place in the market space too. It is the study of how humans have sought to adapt to various environments, what factors affect their mortality and how they possibly evolved from other species. In the market space, an anthropologist would note that the basis of trade is at times defined by what is more indigenous than generic. Products based on indigenous raw materials are likely to sell more than generic or scientifically modified products. He still wishes to retain a part of his original self. That self that is authentic. That indicates he is still an animal though he is rational (Stanford, 2016).

Another trend of biological anthropology is the battle of genders evident in the market space. Anthropologists have always grappled with the superiority contest always at motion between the sexes. Women, on the other hand, think themselves wiser and cunning than men. This anthropological rivalry is seen to productively interact in a marketplace where the advertising branch of a given business is designated to women, preferably beautiful ladies and when the deal is sealed the stronger men are enlisted to carry the purchased commodity to the buyer's premises. Such collaboration of genders is well evident in such a space (Gravlee, 2016).

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Cultural anthropology is another field that exemplifies itself well within a market space. As we stated earlier, man is a social being. He seeks interaction. However, cultural anthropologists would note of the various strata created along cultural lines. Man aims to

identify with his culture. He intends to impose it at more superior to the others. In a market price, a customer is more likely to buy a product from a trader he identifies with by culture. There they will bargain on their culturally set rules; they will use their conventional indigenous gestures as a further advantage. Here friendships are formed, and trade alliances were drawn (Ferguson, 2014).

Linguistic anthropology is another field at play in the market. Language is a medium of communication or seclusion. A man from the early time developed a form of the mother tongue that in time has been perfected to what we have today. Each market has its secret code. There are various words used to mean a different reality than they would in real life. Each of these words is specific to a particular market and a particular target group. The origins of such coded dialects borrow heavily from the cultural expressions and gestures. Certain hand gestures are used to indicate a particular message only known by the intended audience. For instance, a hand's thumbs down gesture would be used to indicate the presence of city council police as opposed to the conventional disapproval notion it carries. Such a gesture could have developed from the need of people to express certain information without getting caught up in it (Xue, 2016).

Conclusion

The anthropological studies of Man continue to fascinate the researchers. He seems always to be in a state of continuous improvement of self by adaptation. The man is highly dynamic and even though placed in a foreign land, he still efficiently has a way of finding himself and his niche within that same alien society.

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Map of the market space

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