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Anthropology: What Are Its Subfields And Perspectives?
What Do Anthropologists Study?

The Subfields of Anthropology
Cultural Anthropology
Ethnography

Ethnology
Archaeology
Prehistoric Archaeology

Historic Archaeology

CRM (Cultural Resource Management)

Applied Archaeology
Linguistics
Descriptive linguistics

Historical linguistics

Ethnolinguistics and Sociolinguistics
Biological Anthropology
Paleoanthropology

Primatology

Contemporary Human variation studies

Forensic anthropology

Anthropology Around Us Forensic Anthropology in the News
How Anthropology Is Unique
Anthropology Is Holistic

Anthropologists Do Fieldwork

Anthropologists Focus on the Comparative Method

The Perspective of Cultural Relativism
Ethnocentrism

Cultural relativism
Should There Be Any Universal Values?
The Scientific Approach in Anthropology
Postmodernism in Anthropology
Summary

Study Questions

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