ANTHROPOLOGY- comes from the latin word “anthropos” means human being and

“logia” meaning the study of.

- Anthropology is the study of all human kinds in all time and space.
-The study of human societies and cultures and their development.
-The study of human biological and physiological characteristics and their evolution.

“2 CLASSIFICTIONS OF ANTHROPOLOGY”

1. BRITISH ANTHROPOLOGY
2.AMERICAN ANHROPLOGY
Franz Boas- The father of American anthropology which is not an American citizen but a German.

“4 MAJOR SUB-FIELDS OF AMERICAN- ANTHROPOLOGY”

1. ARCHEOLOGY- It is the recovery and interpretation of artifacts to explain the history of people who
live long before in which they present evidence on how people live and died before.
“archeology includes”
-historic -contract
-industrial archeology -underwater
-salvage -garbology

2. LINGUISTIC - more than just studying language a a human characteristic and the society that uses it.
“linguistic anthropology includes”
-historic - social
-descriptive -applied

3. PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY-studies human species and explains biological characteristics of human

varietions,, evolutions or relationship with the environment, our behavior and our ability to have culture
ex.The Charles Darwin theory of human evolution.

4. CUTURAL-it focuses on human cultural behavior systems and the variation in cultural expression
among human groups. It also explores development such as genders, kinship, religion, economics and
anything that a human can do.
“cultural anthropology includes”
-development
-educational
-ethnology