Anthropology is the scientific study of humanity, concerned with human behavior, human biology, and societies, in both the present and past, including past human species. Social anthropology studies patterns of behavior, while cultural anthropology studies cultural meaning, including norms and values. Linguistic anthropology studies how language influences social life. Biological or physical anthropology studies the biological development of humans. Visual anthropology, which is usually considered to be a part of social anthropology, can mean both ethnographic film (where photography, film, and new media are used for study) as well as the study of "visuals", including art, visual images, cinema etc. Oxford Bibliographies describes visual anthropology as "the anthropological study of the visual and the visual study of the anthropological".
Archaeology, which studies human activity through investigation of physical evidence, is considered a branch of anthropology in the United States and Canada, while in Europe it is viewed as a discipline in its own right or grouped under other related disciplines, such as history.
Components of the Book:
- Chapter 1
A Phylogenetic Comparative Study of Bantu Kinship Terminology Finds Limited Support for Its Co-Evolution with Social Organisation
- Chapter 2
Beyond multispecies ethnography Engaging with violence and animal rights in anthropology
- Chapter 3
Beyond wilderness towards an anthropology of infrastructure and the built environment in the Russian North
- Chapter 4
Breaking Through Disciplinary Barriers Human–Wildlife Interactions and Multispecies Ethnography
- Chapter 5
Ethics in Biological Anthropology
- Chapter 6
Family and the field Expectations of a field-based research career affect researcher family planning decisions
- Chapter 7
Freud, Jung and Boas the psychoanalytic engagement with anthropology revisited
- Chapter 8
M-AAA-nsplaining Gender bias in questions asked at the American Anthropological Association’s Annual Meetings
- Chapter 9
Neuroanthropology a humanistic science for the study of the culture–brain nexus
- Chapter 10
Recent advances in forensic anthropology decomposition research
- Chapter 11
Social Anthropology and Social Science History
- Chapter 12
The Tsimane Health and Life History Project Integrating anthropology and biomedicine
- Chapter 13
Towards a science of global health delivery A socio-anthropological framework to improve the effectiveness of neglected tropical disease interventions
- Chapter 14
When does matriliny fail The frequencies and causes of transitions to and from matriliny estimated from a de novo coding of a cross-cultural sample
- Chapter 15
Where has the quest for conception taken us Lessons from anthropology and sociology
Readership:
Students, academics, teachers and other people attending or interested in Anthropology.
Myrtille Guillon
Myrtille Guillon
Human Evolutionary Ecology Group, Department of Anthropology, University College London, United Kingdom
Jeffrey Winking
Jeffrey Winking
Department of Anthropology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America
Peter Schweitzer
Peter Schweitzer
Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Christopher D. Lynn
Christopher D. Lynn
Department of Anthropology, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States of America
Michaela E. Howells
Michaela E. Howells
Department of Anthropology, University of North Carolina Wilmington, Wilmington, North Carolina, United States of America
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