What are some challanges that anthropologist face when studing another culture?

Answer 1

The main challenge that anthropology faces now is that aboriginal communities are disappering from the world so they have to adapt to study new human groups who are more familiar to us.

In the actual practice of anthropology one problem is that everyone has their own worldview, so when you study a certain group of people it is hard to leave your own thoughts out of the work, everyone has a bias and that bias might interfere in your work and make you omit or include some stuff that shouldn't or should be there.

Another issue that anthropology has is that what it studies is always changing, is not like chemistry for example because atoms always behave in known patterns, in anthropology all people will tell you different things so when you do a study in a certain group of people, you have to know how to put all of the thoughts of the community in one.

Answer 2

Anthropologists may face challenges such as language barriers, gaining trust and access to the community, maintaining objectivity, avoiding bias and ethnocentrism, and navigating cultural differences and norms. Additionally, issues related to interpretation and translation of cultural practices and beliefs may also arise, impacting the accuracy of research findings.