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Parent topics
- Applied social sciences [r]: Applied social sciences are those social science disciplines, professions and occupations which seek to use basic social science research and theory to improve the daily life of communities, organizations and persons. [e]
- Biology [r]: The science of life — of complex, self-organizing, information-processing systems living in the past, present or future. [e]
Subtopics
Major anthropological fields
- Cultural anthropology [r]: The branch of anthropology concerned with the study of human societies and cultures and their development. [e]
- Culture area [r]: A region, in anthropology, in which the environment and cultures are very similar. [e]
- Ethnography [r]: The scientific collection of data regarding culture and society, generally entailing direct engagement with the culture or society under study. [e]
- Ethnology [r]: The theoretical study of human cultures and societies. [e]
- Ethnic group [r]: A population whose members identify with one another as distinct from others. This usually occurs through a perceived common history, and often also includes shared culture, race, religion, or language. [e]
- Cult [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Cargo cult [r]: A group of social movements that began in Melanesia in the late nineteenth century which believe that manufactured goods, including canned goods, airplanes, and automobiles, were created by spirits or ancestors of Melanesian people. [e]
- Mythology [r]: The study of myths and sagas. [e]
- Tecum Umam [r]: Legendary defender of the Maya and national hero of Guatemala. [e]
- Ritual [r]: Set of actions, performed mainly for their symbolic value, which is prescribed by a convention or by the traditions of a community. [e]
- Linguistic anthropology [r]: The branch of anthropology that brings linguistic methods to bear on anthropological problems, linking the analysis of semiotic and particularly linguistic forms and processes to the interpretation of sociocultural processes. [e]
- Language (general) [r]: A type of communication system, commonly used in linguistics, computer science and other fields to refer to different systems, including 'natural language' in humans, programming languages run on computers, and so on. [e]
- Physical anthropology [r]: The anthropological study of humans as a biological species. [e]
- Paleoanthropology [r]: The branch of physical anthropology that focuses on the study of human evolution, tracing the anatomic, behavioral and genetic linkages of our ancient, usually bipedal, ancestors. [e]
- Human evolution [r]: The study of the physical and behavioral genetic adaptations of the species belonging to the subfamily hominidae. [e]
- Evolution of the human diet [r]: Factors in the development of the human diet in history. [e]
- Fossil hominin species [r]: Twenty recognized species of extinct hominin, found as prehistoric skeletal remains which are archeologically earlier than Neolithic. [e]
- Hominin [r]: Primates in the Tribe Hominini which is a relatively recent classification under which it is proposed would fall all of the fossil and living bipedal apes including the Australopithecines, fossil members of the genus Homo and living humans. It is generally replacing the term hominid in the scientific literature. [e]
- Kennewick Man [r]: An Early Holocene human skeleton first discovered near Kennewick, Washington in 1996. [e]
- Paleoanthropology in South Africa [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Human evolution [r]: The study of the physical and behavioral genetic adaptations of the species belonging to the subfamily hominidae. [e]
- Human biology [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Paleoanthropology [r]: The branch of physical anthropology that focuses on the study of human evolution, tracing the anatomic, behavioral and genetic linkages of our ancient, usually bipedal, ancestors. [e]
- Social anthropology [r]: Add brief definition or description
Interdisciplinary anthropology
- Anthropological linguistics [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Ethnobotany [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Ethnomathematics [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Indigenous knowledge system [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Integrative medicine [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Intercultural competence [r]: Add brief definition or description
Prominent figures in anthropology
A list of "must read" anthropologists taken from an Open Anthropology Cooperative discussion about the main figures of the history of anthropology
19th Century
- Karl Marx [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Lewis Henry Morgan [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Edward Tylor [r]: Add brief definition or description
20th Century
- Georges Bandalier [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Fredrik Barth [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Ruth Benedict [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Franz Boas [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Mary Douglas [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Louis Dumont [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Emile Durkheim [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Edward Evans-Pritchard [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Raymond Firth [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Meyer Fortes [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Clifford Geertz [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Max Gluckman [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Jack Goody [r]: Add brief definition or description
- A - Edmund Leach [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Claude Levi-Strauss [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Bronislaw Malinowski [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Marcel Mauss [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Margaret Mead [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Alfred Metraux [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Sidney Mintz [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Sherry Ortner [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Marshall Sahlins [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Edward Spicer [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Max Weber [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Eric Wolfe [r]: Add brief definition or description
- African American literature [r]: Add brief definition or description
- African philosophy [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Anatomy [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Dravidistan [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Ecological footprint [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Editing [r]: Add brief definition or description
- El Señor Presidente [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Homosexuality [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Poststructuralism [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Race (biology) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Sathya Sai Baba Movement [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Sathya Sai Baba [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Social Darwinism [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Socialization [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Sri Aurobindo [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Sympathetic magic [r]: Add brief definition or description
- The Hero With A Thousand Faces [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Theories of religion [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Traditional medicine [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Applied linguistics [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Astronomy [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Botany [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Cognitive science [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Evolutionary linguistics [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Evolutionary psychology [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Geography [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Science [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Sociolinguistics [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Sociology [r]: Add brief definition or description