What is Anthropology?

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What is Anthropology?
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Biological Anthropology

• Primatology
• Paleoanthropology
• Study of contemporary human biological variation

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Mary and Louis Leakey examine fossils they found
in Tanzania, 1959
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Map of fossil sites of early Australopithecines
in Africa
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When you begin to understand the biology of
human variation, you have to ask yourself if race
is a good way to describe that. ---Janis
Hutchinson, Biological Anthropologist
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Archaeology

• Prehistoric
• Historic

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Linguistic Anthropology

• Descriptive Linguistics
• Historical Linguistics
• Sociolinguistics

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Language Families
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Mother
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Cultural Anthropology
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Applied Anthropology
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Holt Cemetary, New Orleans
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Franz Boas, 1858-1942