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What is Anthropology?
The Scope of Anthropology
The Holistic Approach
The Anthropological Curiosity
Fields of Anthropology
Specialization
The Relevance of Anthropology
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What is Anthropology?
characteristics of a population.
discuss:
the history of the area in which they live,
the physical environment,
the organization of family life,
the general features of their language,
their political and economic systems,
their religion,
their diet, or
their styles of art and dress.
Fields of Anthropology
Biological (physical)
Anthropology
Two Primary Focuses of Study:
Human Paleontology
Look at the emergence of humans and their later evolution
Reconstruct human evolution through fossils
Human Variation
Investigate how and why human populations differ in biological or
physical characteristics
Cultural Anthropology
Cultural anthropology is concerned with
Archaeology
Linguistics
Ethnology
Archaeology
Archaeologists try to reconstruct history
Anthropological Linguistics
The anthropological study of
language.
Historical Linguistics
Study of how languages change over time and how they are
related
Sociolinguistics
Ethnology
Commonly referred to as cultural
Ethnohistorian
Cross-Cultural Researcher
Applied Anthropology
About half of all professional
The Relevance of
Anthropology
In order to understand humans, it is