Introduction to Anthropology

Anthropology is the study of human beings. (In Greek "Anthropos-" means "human", and "-logy" means "study of".)And anthropology is the study of humans and human behaviour and societies in the past and present. Social anthropology and cultural anthropology study the norms and values of societies. Linguistic anthropology studies how language affects social life. Biological or physical anthropology studies the biological development of humans. Anthropology is a biological and historical social science that helps us learn how groups of people are the same, and how they are different in all parts of the world. Anthropologists do research in many places and study how people live now and how they may have lived in the past (using the study of Archaeology). They research in modern cities, small villages, tribes, and in the countryside. They study how groups of people consider time, space, life, etc.

Contents Apps

1. Origin and development of the term

2. Fields

3. Key topics by field: sociocultural

4. Key topics by field: archaeological and biological

5. Organizations

6. Ethics

7. Post–World War II developments

8. General Anthropology Concept

- Anthropological theories of value

- Culture

- Society

- Kinship and descent

- Marriage and family

- Evolution

- Material culture

- Race

- Ethnicity

- Globalization

- Postcolonialism

- Gender

- Socialization

9. Theories

- Actor–network theory

- Alliance theory

- Cross-cultural studies

- Cultural materialism

- Culture theory

- Feminism

- Functionalism

- Interpretive/Symbolic Anthropology

- Performance studies

- Political economy

- Practice theory

- Structuralism

- Post-structuralism

- Systems theory

10. Methods and Framework

- Ethnography

- Ethnology

- Cross-cultural comparison

- Participant observation

- Online ethnography

- Holism

- Reflexivity

- Thick description

- Cultural relativism

- Ethnocentrism

- Emic and etic