Anthropology !!

Anthropology consists of four sub fields:

In British universities, Archaeology is usually considered to be a separate academic discipline, distinct from Anthropology.  This is particularly true of classical and historical archaeology.

• Archaeology examines our past ways of life through the interpretation of material culture, organic remains, written records, and oral traditions.
• Biological Anthropology deals with the evolution of the human body, mind and behavior as inferred through study of fossils and comparisons with behavior and anatomy of other primate species.
• Cultural Anthropology explores the diversity of existing human ways of life, how they work, how they change, and how they interrelate in the modern world.
• Linguistic Anthropology examines the structure and diversity of language and related human communication systems.
• In addition to the four traditional subfields, some have suggested that Applied Anthropology constitutes a distinct subfield. Applied Anthropology emphasizes how the theories, techniques and methods of anthropology can be employed to facilitate stability or change and solve problems in real world situations.

Fields of Anthropology

·         There are now four major fields of anthropology: biological anthropology, cultural anthropology, linguistic anthropology, and archaeology.  Each focuses on a different set of research interests and generally uses different research techniques.  The methods range from those commonly used by the social sciences and humanities to those of biology and geology.  Biological anthropology and archaeology are generally the closest to the biological and physical sciences in methods and approach to learning about the human experience.

Anthropology is the study of humanity.Its main subdivisions are social and cultural anthropology, which describes the workings of societies around the world, linguistic anthropology, which investigates the influence of language in social life, and biological or physical anthropology,^, which concerns long-term development of the human organism. Archaeology, which studies past human cultures through investigation of physical evidence, is thought of as a branch of anthropology in the United States, although in Europe, it is viewed as a discipline in its own right, or related to other disciplines. Eric R. Wolf states "Ideas about race, culture and people hood or ethnicity have long served to orient anthropology's inquiries