Social Anthropology

Question
1. Give a brief definition & explanation of the major sub-fields anthropology?

Answer
1. Sub fields of anthropology are
 Cultural anthropology
 Archaeology anthropology
 Linguistic anthropology
 Physical anthropology
 Cultural anthropology; it is concerned with the social and cultural
dimension of the living people.
Cultural anthropology is also concerned with making generalization about
and seeking explanation for similarities and differences among the world
people.
There are many other specialized fields of study in social or cultural anthropology.
Some of these include
 Anthropology of art
 Medical anthropology
 Political anthropology
 Development anthropology
 Anthropology of religion
 Legal anthropology
 Ecological anthropology
 Ethno music anthropology
 Demographic anthropology

 Archaeology anthropology; archaeology studies the ways of lives

of past people to study about human past, it evaluate and analyze the
physical remains left behind like
 tools, ornaments, pottery, animal bones, human skeletons
 Ancient buildings, evidence of home people lived in.
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 Eco-facts are non-art factual, organic and environment remain.

Such as soil animal bones and plant to understand

 To how people used natural resources in the past.
 Human relation with environment.
Archeology has some main sub-field or areas of specialties
 Prehistorical archeology; Its investigate human prehistorical cultural it is
focus on entire
 Historical archeology; Helps to reconstruct peoples used writing and about
whom historical document have been written, it examine the fact that about
6000years ago some human groups invented language and began to write
down that can tell about the past.
 Ethno-archeology; it studies material culture of currency to understand the
cultures of past so soviets.
 Linguistic anthropology;
 Linguistic describe and analyze the sound patterns, combination of
sound meaning and structure of sentence in human language
 Determine hoe two or more language are related
 Linguistic anthropology concerned with relations between language
and other aspects of human behavior
Linguistic anthropology is divided into four distinct branches
1. Structural or descriptive linguistics
2. Historical linguistic
3. Ethno- linguistic
4. Socio-linguistic
 Physical anthropology; This sub-field studies the biological
dimension of human beings, including
 Biological evolution
 The physical variation between of non-human primates
Physical anthropology itself is further divided into three special fields of study
 Paole–anthropology; it studies fossils from prehistoric.
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 Primatology; it studies about primates or recent human ancestor animals

the most closely resemble human beings internal physiological and
anatomical structure.
 Anthropometry; It studies physical difference among human groups.

Question
2. Explain the major approaches of anthropology and describe their
importance briefly?

Answer
Three major approaches of anthropology are;
 Anthropology is Holistic; studying one aspect of the ways of life a group
of people by relating it to other complex related aspects of life.
 Anthropology is Relativistic;
 Anthropology tries to study and explain all human aspects with its
own context.
 It does not make value judgment, i.e., declaring that ‘this belief or
practice is good’ or ‘that is bad.’
 Anthropology is Comparative;
 It studies certain aspects of the culture of a group of people by
comparing it across societies and different times.
 It studies the present with the past, the modern with the traditional
etc.