How impractical is a major in anthropology?

Thinking about changing to anthropology major... need some advice!?

• I am a psychology major with a minor in spanish, and one of my general education classes i took this semester is a cultural anthropology class. i love learning about new cultures and things like that, so this class has really interested me, and i'm now thinking about taking up that major. so now i will have a double major and minor. some of the concetps we talk about in psych and anthro have the same ideas, so i'm wondering would a lot of classes for a psych major and an anthropology major be on the same page (so that i won't have a butt load of different classes that im piling on myself). I guess I should say, do anthropology and psychology classes relate enough to each other to where it will be easy to add that anthropology major without a whole bunch of classes being added on to me...

• Answer:

  Anthropology is a very broad field - on one hand you have cultural anthropologists studying the cultural systems of living societies and on the other, you have archaeologists and biological anthropologists looking the evolutionary history of humans, our past and present morphological and biological differences, etc. You need to also know that anthropology tends to study the human organism in groups and uses different methodology than psychology. Also, social sciences tend to embrace postmodernism better than psych would. Read some of the older stuff by Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict - they were interested in culture and personality which connects to psychology. Also read stuff by Ernest Becker - his death theories have connected anthro to psych