What are the types of anthropology?

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What are the types of anthropology?

Answer 1

Hi Min..........

Anthropology can be also categorised as : Symbolic,Interpretative,Culture and Personality school,Cultural Evolutionism,Functionalism,Cultural Materialism

The types of Anthropology are:

Anthropology of Religion

Applied Anthropology

Cultural Anthropology

Economic Anthropology

Educational Anthropology

Ethnography

Ethnohistory

Ethnology

Ethnomusicology

Linguistic Anthropology

Medical Anthropology

Political Anthropology

Social Anthropology

Urban Anthropology

There are many types of anthropology, but the four basic types are:

ARCHAELOGY - The study of things people leave behind, like pottery, stone tools, or anything made or used by humans.

PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY - The study of human biology, including how people's bodies changed over time (evolution). Physical anthropologists also study non-human primates).

LINGUISTIC ANTHROPOLOGY- The study of how people speak and the words they use and how their language developed.

CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY- The study of how people live their lives now and how they may have lived in the past. It is also related to sociology.

Answer 2

Dorothy is spot on.

Answer 3

There are many types of anthropology including basic Anthropology

Cultutural Anthropology

Archeology

Medical Anthropology

Physical Anthropology

Urban Anthropology

Linguistic Anthropology

For a more thorough list I have included this link from Questia,