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The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to anthropology:
Anthropology – study of humanity. Anthropology has origins in the natural sciences, the humanities, and the social sciences.[1] The term was first used by François Péron when discussing his encounters with Tasmanian Aborigines.[2]
What type of thing is anthropology?
Anthropology can be described as all of the following:
- Academic discipline – body of knowledge given to - or received by - a disciple (student); a branch or sphere of knowledge, or field of study, that an individual has chosen to specialise in.
- Field of science – widely recognized category of specialized expertise within science, and typically embodies its own terminology and nomenclature. Such a field will usually be represented by one or more scientific journals, where peer reviewed research is published. There are many sociology-related scientific journals.
- Social science – field of academic scholarship that explores aspects of human society.
History of anthropology
Fields of anthropology
- Archaeology
- Biological anthropology
- Linguistic anthropology
- Cultural anthropology
- Social anthropology
Archaeological and biological subfields
Linguistics subfields
Socio-cultural anthropology subfields
- Applied anthropology
- Anthropology of art
- Cognitive anthropology
- Digital anthropology
- Anthropology of development
- Ecological anthropology
- Economic anthropology
- Historical anthropology
- Anthropology of gender & sexuality
- Kinship & family
- Legal anthropology
- Media anthropology
- Medical anthropology
- Political anthropology
- Psychological anthropology
- Public anthropology
- Anthropology of religion
- Transpersonal anthropology
- Urban anthropology
- Visual anthropology
General anthropology concepts
- Anthropological theories of value
- Culture
- Society
- Kinship and descent
- Marriage and family
- Evolution
- Material culture
- Race and ethnicity
- Globalization and postcolonialism
- Gender
- Socialization
Theories
- Actor–network theory
- Alliance theory
- Cross-cultural studies
- Cultural materialism
- Culture theory
- Feminism
- Functionalism
- Interpretive
- Performance studies
- Political economy
- Practice theory
- Structuralism
- Post-structuralism
- Systems theory
Methods and frameworks
- Ethnography
- Ethnology
- Cross-cultural comparison
- Participant observation
- Online ethnography
- Holism
- Reflexivity
- Thick description
- Cultural relativism
- Ethnocentrism
- Emic and etic
Anthropology organizations
- American Anthropological Association
- American Ethnological Society
- Moving Anthropology Student Network
- Anthropological Society of London
- Center for World Indigenous Studies
- Ethnological Society of London
- Institute of Anthropology and Ethnography
- Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
- Network of Concerned Anthropologists
- N. N. Miklukho-Maklai Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology
- Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland
- Society for anthropological sciences
- Society for Applied Anthropology
- USC Center for Visual Anthropology
Books, journals, and other literature
Anthropology scholars
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Anthropology lists
- List of members of the National Academy of Sciences (Anthropology)
- List of museums with major collections in ethnography and anthropology
- List of visual anthropology films
See also
Related fields
- Ethnology
- Folklore
- Philosophical anthropology– which is not part of anthropology but a subfield of philosophy
- Sociology
- Theological anthropology – which is not part of anthropology but a subfield of theology
- Periodic Table of Human Sciences / Anthropology in Tinbergen's four questions
References
- ↑ Wolf, Eric (1994) Perilous Ideas: Race, Culture, People. Current Anthropology 35: 1-7. p.227
- ↑ Flannery, T.F. (1994) The Future Eaters: An ecological history of the Australasian lands and people Chatswood: New South Wales ISBN 0-8021-3943-4
External links
- American Anthropological Association (AAA): What is Anthropology?
- National Association for the Practice of Anthropology (NAPA): The Profession of Anthropology
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