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Anthropology seeks to study human beings through historical and comparative means. Ethnology, or cultural anthropology, is a popular subfield of anthropology by which individuals study cultures, specifically their customs and beliefs. When studying and understanding another culture, an anthropologist must consider three detrimental elements or perspectives. They include the holistic perspective, comparative perspective and the relativistic perspective. When a farmer plants a crop, he or she must take into account numerous factors that will affect its growth. For example, the amount of rainfall, sunshine, fertilizers, and pesticides each affect the final outcome of the crop. When viewed metaphorically, the crop is the culture and the anthropologist is the farmer. The farmer must take into account and understand all factors that influence the growth of a particular crop just as an anthropologist must look at each aspect, religion, family life, social structure, economy, and gender differences, of a culture to fully understand that culture.