Fields of Anthropology

Listen to these two stories.

1. Lucy
2. Mbuti Pygmies

Let's decide what specialties would be needed to study these two topics.

There are two basic divisions within anthropology:  Biological and Cultural



The Subfields of Biological Anthropology include

• Primatology
• Human evolution
• Human variation
• Paleoanthropology

and are supported by geology, paleontology, biology and genetics.


Bronislaw Malinowski

The Subfields of Cultural Anthropology include

• Archaeology
• Sociolinguistics
• Historical Linguistics
• Ethnology

and are supported by history, sociology and psychology.

Homework:

Complete the handouts with the help of a dictionary or the textbook.