Year: 2012

Cultural Anthropology

Physical Anthropologists Have Three Broad Areas of Interest

Physical anthropology is a biological view of humans.  There is three broad areas of interest to physical anthropologists, evolution of humans, human variation, and primatology. Paleoanthropology is the study of human evolution through the fossil records of humans. Primatology is the…

Cultural Anthropology

The Four-Field Approach to Anthropology

Anthropology is divided into four subfields. Physical Anthropology – humans as biological organisms Paleoanthropology Applied physical anthropology Human variation Forensic anthropology Primatology Archaeology – attempts to reconstruct past cultures most without any written records Cultural resource management Historical archaeology Applied Archaeology…

Cultural Anthropology

Differences Between Anthropology and Other Social Sciences

Anthropology is a study in science that focuses on where people originate, how people develop, and the contemporary variations of people.  Anthropology differs from sociology, history, poli-sci, biology, psychology, and economics because anthropology aims to explain in a very broad sense what…