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| The study of the human species and its immediate ancestors. |
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| The application of anthropological data, perspectives, theory, and methods to identify, assess, and solve contemporary social problems. |
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| archaeological anthropology |
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| : reconstructs, describes, and interprets human behavior and cultural patterns through material remains. |
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| biological (physical) anthropology |
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| : studies human biological diversity in time and space- hominid evolution, human genetics, human biological adaptation; primatology (evolution of apes) |
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| study of human society and culture: describes, analyzes, interprets, & explains social and cultural similarities and differences. |
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| provides an account of a particular community, society, or culture. – may love in small communities and study local behaviors, beliefs, customs, social life, economy. |
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| : examines, interprets, analyzes, and compares the results of ethnography- the data gathered in different societies. |
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| the study of the whole of the human condition; past, present, future; biology, society, language, and culture. |
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| : studies language in its social and cultural context, across space and over time. |
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| the attempt to assign humans to discrete categories based on common ancestry |
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: investigates relationships between social and linguistic variation.
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| unique features of anthropology |
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| concerns with biology society culture and language links to many other academic feilds-natrual sciences, social sciences and humanities |
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| four traditional subfields and what they study |
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| cultural anthropology can be applied to development anthro. archeological can be applied to cultural resource management, lingusitic ant can be applied to study of linguistics diversity in classrooms bilogical or physical anthro can be applied to forensic anthro |
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| bicultural perspectives on race |
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| becaus eof a range of problems involved in classifying humans into racial categories, contemporary scientist focus on specific differences, such as skin color and they try to explain then. biological similarities rather than commonancestary (the assumed basis of race(- may reflect similar but independant adaptation to similar natural selective forces cultural forces mold human biology including out body types and images |
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| connections with other feilds |
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| applied cultural anthropologist sometimes work with public archaeologist, assesing the human problmes generated by the proposed change and determining whow they can be reduced. cultural anthropology can be applied to development anthro. archeological can be applied to cultural resource management, lingusitic ant can be applied to study of linguistics diversity in classrooms |
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| academic v. applied anthropology |
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| academic is general anthropology, antrho perspectives, theory,methods and data to identify asses. applied refers to the application of anthro data,perspectives,theory and methods to identify asses, solve contemporary social problems |
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