Mention the major and subfields of anthropology?

Question

Mention the major and subfields of anthropology?

Answer 1

In the U.S. the dominant subfields of anthropology are:

Cultural Anthropology

Biological/Physical Anthropology

Linguistic Anthropology

Archaeology

There are referred to as the four subfields of anthropology, and many U.S. institutions identify themselves as practicing the "four field" approach.  They require graduate students to take coursework, and maybe examinations, in several subfields outside of their major focus.  While you're not expected to be an expert archaeologist in order to study cultural anthropology for example, these institutions often work to prepare a graduate student to be able to teach an introductory undergraduate course on any of these subfields.  The "four field" approach has been criticized as these fields grow increasingly specialized.

Beyond these four major subfields, anthropology can be divided into a massive, growing number of further subdivisions, and anthropologists often define themselves based on regional expertise (an "anthropologist of Japan" for example) as well as topical areas ("visual anthropology" is one example).  These further subdivisions often show up as their own professional journals and organizations (Visual Anthropology Review, for example, or the Graduate Association of Visual Anthropologists).

You can poke around the AAA website to see a number of subfields, if you like.  I hope this is helpful!

Answer 2

There are a lot of subfields in anthropology.  You can study bones, and be an osteologist.  You can study ancient Egypt and be an Egyptologist.  You can study how ancient people interacted with the plants around them and be a paleoethnobotanist.  You can take pretty much any facet of human life in any era and make a specialization out of it.

Answer 3

First there's social/cultural anthropology

Then Linguistics

Then Archaelogy

And last is Physical anthropology, which has Primatology, Paleoanthropology, Osteology, Paleopathology, and Forensic Anthropology

Answer 4

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropolog...

Answer 5

Social or Cultural Anthropology and

Physical Anthropology