Ans: Anthropology is the scientific and humanistic study of human diversity through space and time. It concerns itself with all aspects of the human condition, past, present, and future, and with biology, society, language, and culture; and in that respect it is holistic, comparative, and cross-cultural.

Ans: Cultures are traditions and customs, transmitted through learning, that govern the beliefs and behaviors of the people exposed to them. All people have culture: there is no such thing as a person having more "culture" than another, because culture is the sum of human beliefs.

Ans: What distinguishes anthropology from the other social sciences is that it is holistic and comparative. It is holistic because anthropologists are interested in the whole of the human condition: past, present, and future; in biology, society, language, and culture. In contrast to other social sciences, for example, it studies how economics, religion, history, psychology, political science, and sociology all interact and are expressed in culture. It is comparative because it studies all human cultures, past and present, not just Western cultures or those with written histories.