What is Anthropology?

Published by Christopher Singh

Anthropology is the study of humans.

Figure 1. Olmec Head at Lehman College.
Figure 2. Chacmool sculpture at the American Museum of Natural History. Hall of Mexico and Central America.


Four Sub-Fields of Anthropology

1 Archaeology

2 Biological Anthropology 

3 Cultural Anthropology 

4 Linguistic Anthropology 

• Applied anthropology is sometimes regarded as the fifth subfield of anthropology.

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