Content-Type: text/html

# Anthropology

HomePage | RecentChanges | Preferences
You can edit this page right now! It's a free, community project

Anthropology is the study of human beings as biological and cultural entities. It is traditionally divided into four subdisciplines: [physical anthropology]?, which studies the evolution and biology of genus Homo and its predecessors; cultural anthropology, which studies the cultural mechanisms that humans have used to adapt to a variety of environments through time; linguistics, which studies the communication systems used in human cultures; and archaeology, which studies past human activity through reconstruction of environmental settings and cultural systems.

Among phenomena studied by cultural anthropologists are cannibalism (which we mention only because we have an article on the subject; please help complete this list)...

Notable Anthropologists include

- Margaret Mead
- [Colin Turnbull]?

HomePage | RecentChanges | Preferences
You can edit this page right now! It's a free, community project
Edit text of this page | View other revisions
Last edited June 28, 2001 2:06 pm (diff)
Search: