What is anthropology about?

Question

What is anthropology about?

Answer 1

The mind

Answer 2

Athropo means humans, and ology is the study of something.  One official definition is the study of humans through space and time.  Anthropology also includes the sub genre of archeology  as well.  It is considered a social science.  There are two big camps in anthropology.  One being social anthropology dealing mainly with the study of human culture and the other being biological anthropology dealing with genes, human evolution, and evolutionary ecology.  Social anthropology tends to be more of a soft science while biological anthropology tends to be a more hard science.

Answer 3

study of people

Answer 4

Anthropology is the study of fate and destiny as it would peter down into the variations of the puzzling aspects of further explaining the astheticisms and aesceticisms of the symbology and alignments affiliated amongst the limits of consciousness in an evolving culture such as Earth mostly.

Answer 5

Actually, Anthropological science is divided into four human-oriented fields:

Physical Anthro: Evolutionism, etc.

SocioCultural Anthro: Cultures, etc.

Linguistics: Language, etc.

and Archeology: Understanding past culture.

John B: I'm pretty sure the question wasn't "What is Athropoology?"

Answer 6

The answers to the questions show that most of you are from America, or, anyway, not from Europe. America's anthropology is divided into four fields. (see the anwer of Mike G) In The Netherlands Anthropology basically means Cultural Anthropology. Archeology is a total different study here. Physical anthropology and linguistics are not a part of the study anthropology. Here anthropology focusses on cultures and cultural expressions: religion, economics, meanings of kinship, morals and values and so on. Also international development/cooperation is part of the study.

I am a student anthropology and what I learned is that American anthropology is different from European Anthropology because of the four-fields approach.