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What distinguishes anthropology from other fields that study human beings? How do anthropologists study human diversity in time and space?
Why is anthropology both scientific and humanistic? Street scene with soccer in
Istanbul, Turkey. Culture, including sports, helps shape our bodies, personalities, and personal health.
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What Is Anthropology?
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HUMAN DIVERSITY
Adaptation, Variation, and Change
GENERAL
ANTHROPOLOGY
Cultural Forces Shape
Human Biology
THE SUBDISCIPLINES
OF ANTHROPOLOGY
Cultural Anthropology
Archaeological
Anthropology
Biological, or Physical,
Anthropology
understanding OURSELVES
W
hen you grew up, which sport
that affects our development as much as do
did you appreciate the most—
nutrition, heat, cold, and altitude. Culture also
soccer, swimming, football,
guides our emotional and cognitive growth
baseball, tennis, golf, or some
and helps determine the kinds of personalities
other sport (or perhaps none at all)? Is this be-
we have as adults.
cause of “who you are” or because of the op-
Among scholarly disciplines, anthropology
portunities you had as a child to practice and
stands out as the field that provides the cross-
participate in this particular activity? Think
cultural test. How much would we know about
about the phrases and sentences you would
human behavior, thought, and feeling if we stud-
use to describe yourself in a personal ad or on
ied only our own kind? What if our entire under-
a networking site—your likes and dislikes,
standing of human behavior were based on
Cultural Anthropology and Sociology
hobbies,
What distinguishes anthropology from other fields that study human beings? How do anthropologists study human diversity in time and space?
Why is anthropology both scientific and humanistic? Street scene with soccer in
Istanbul, Turkey. Culture, including sports, helps shape our bodies, personalities, and personal health.
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What Is Anthropology?
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HUMAN DIVERSITY
Adaptation, Variation, and Change
GENERAL
ANTHROPOLOGY
Cultural Forces Shape
Human Biology
THE SUBDISCIPLINES
OF ANTHROPOLOGY
Cultural Anthropology
Archaeological
Anthropology
Biological, or Physical,
Anthropology
understanding OURSELVES
W
hen you grew up, which sport
that affects our development as much as do
did you appreciate the most—
nutrition, heat, cold, and altitude. Culture also
soccer, swimming, football,
guides our emotional and cognitive growth
baseball, tennis, golf, or some
and helps determine the kinds of personalities
other sport (or perhaps none at all)? Is this be-
we have as adults.
cause of “who you are” or because of the op-
Among scholarly disciplines, anthropology
portunities you had as a child to practice and
stands out as the field that provides the cross-
participate in this particular activity? Think
cultural test. How much would we know about
about the phrases and sentences you would
human behavior, thought, and feeling if we stud-
use to describe yourself in a personal ad or on
ied only our own kind? What if our entire under-
a networking site—your likes and dislikes,
standing of human behavior were based on
Cultural Anthropology and Sociology
hobbies,