What is Anthropology?

Anthropology, the study of humankind, is an inter-disciplinary field with four main subdivisions that range across science, social science, and the humanities: archaeology, linguistics, biological anthropology, and cultural anthropology.

• From the earth, archaeologists recover material, human, and environmental remains in order to interpret the cultures of past societies.
• Linguists record, analyze, and compare languages worldwide in order to trace the origins and development of language in relation to society and culture.
• Biological anthropologists investigate human physical origins, growth, and development in relation to environmental, genetic, and sociocultural factors.
• Cultural anthropologists work with living human groups and individuals throughout the world, recording their ways of life and beliefs (ethnography) and analyzing and interpreting their findings with a view to understanding and explaining similarities and differences in human behaviour.

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