ANTHROPOLOGY

• comes from the Greek “anthropos” (human)

and “logia” (study).
• The study of all aspect of human life and
culture. It examines such topics as how
people live, what they think, what they
produce, and how they interact with their
environment.
• Is the scientific study of origins of man, how
we have changed over the years, and how
we relate to each other, both with our own
culture and with people from other cultures.
Fields of Anthropology
• Physical Anthropology
• Cultural Anthropology
• Linguistic Anthropology
• Archaeology
Physical Anthropology
• Biological anthropology, also known as
physical anthropology, is a scientific
discipline that deals with the biological
and behavioural aspect of human beings,
their related non-human primate and the
extinct hominid ancestors.
• Physical anthropologist focus on the
evolution of human anatomy and
physiology rather than culture.
 Cultural anthropology
• also known as social anthropology, the study of
the learned behavior of groups of people in
specific environments.
• Is a branch of anthropology that focuses on the
study of cultural variation among humans. It
investigate and seeks to understand the cultural
features of the society.
• Cultural anthropologist study such topics as how
people make their living, how people interact
with each other, what belief people holds, and
what institution organize people in the society.
Linguistic Anthropology
• It seeks to understand the human language,
written or non-written, spoken or non-verbal.
The study of how language change over time is
termed as historical linguistics.
• Explores how language shapes communication,
forms social identity and group memberships,
organizes large-scale beliefs and ideologies, and
a common cultural representation of natural and
social world.
Archaeology
• the study of the human past using
material remains. It also seeks to
reconstruct the path life of society, trace
the cultural changes that took place and
the reason behind the changes.
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