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Being Human: An Introduction to Four-field Anthropology
This text is designed for introductory anthropology courses providing a survey of anthropology from a four-fields perspective. Units within this text cover an overview of anthropology and the four fields, evolution and biological anthropology, cultural anthropology, archaeology, and linguistic anthropology. A final unit presents applied anthropology as bringing the four subfields back together.
- Author
- Luke Konkol
- Publisher
- Moraine Park Technical College
- Source
- LibreTexts
- License
- CC BY-NC-SA
- Language
- EN
- Category
- Basic Sciences
Contents· 27 sections
- 01: An Overview of Anthropology
- 1.01: What is Anthropology
- 1.02: The Four Fields
- 02: Biological Anthropology
- 2.01: Evolution
- 2.02: Our Primate Relatives
- 2.03: Biological Humans
- 2.04: Today's Human Variation
- 03: Cultural Anthropology
- 3.01: What is Culture
- 3.02: Participant Observation
- 3.03: Myth Magic and Ritual
- 3.04: Exchange and Social Systems
- 3.05: Marriage and Kinship
- 3.06: Insider Outsider and Identity
- 04: Archaeology
- 4.01: Material Culture
- 4.02: Excavation and Context
- 4.03: Interpretation and Ethics
- 05: Linguistic Anthropology
- 5.01: Language and Society
- 5.02: Language Change and Digital Communication
- 06: Applied Anthropology
- 6.01: Putting Anthropology to Good Use
- 6.02: Contemporary Issues
- 6.2.01: Medical Anthropology
- 6.2.02: Environmental Anthropology