What are the goals of anthropology? discuss the problems as well as the benefits of anthropological study.

The aim of anthropology is to seek a broad, comparative and critical understanding of human beings, their knowledge and ways of being.

Anthropology encompasses the study of the human being as a cultural being, a creator of culture. Investigate how human cultures in time and space, their origins and development, their similarities and differences. Her focus is on the knowledge of human cultural behavior acquired through social learning. From the understanding of the variety of cultural procedures within the contexts in which they are detected, anthropology, such as the study of cultures, the contributions to eradicate prejudices derived from ethnocentrism, foster cultural relativism and respect for diversity.

Anthropologists are interested in both the simplest, culturally differentiated social groups and the cultural groups that exist within their own society. The anthropologist is given the task of formulating explanatory principles for the formation and development of human cultures.