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Anthropology: What Are Its Subfields and Perspectives?


Chapter 1 outlines the four subfields of anthropology and provides examples of anthropological research to give you an idea of the scope of this broad discipline. You should be able to describe the goals of anthropology and to explain how anthropology is unique among the sciences. The chapter also discusses how anthropology fits in as a scientific discipline.

At the completion of this chapter students should be able to:

Describe the goals of anthropology

Introduce the scope and subfields of anthropology

Delineate how anthropology is unique

Explain how anthropology is a scientific discipline





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