Outline of anthropology

Outline of anthropology
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to anthropology:
Anthropology – study of humanity. Anthropology has origins in the natural sciences, the humanities, and the social sciences. The term was first used by François Péron when discussing his encounters with Tasmanian Aborigines.
What type of thing is anthropology?
Anthropology can be described as all of the following:
Academic discipline – body of knowledge given to – or received by – a disciple (student); a branch or sphere of knowledge, or field of study, that an individual has chosen to specialise in.
Field of science – widely recognized category of specialized expertise within science, and typically embodies its own terminology and nomenclature. Such a field will usually be represented by one or more scientific journals, where peer-reviewed research is published. There are many sociology-related scientific journals.
Social science – field of academic scholarship that explores aspects of human society.
History of anthropology
History of anthropology
Fields of anthropology
Archaeology
Biological anthropology, concerned with the biological and behavioral aspects of human beings
Linguistic anthropology
Cultural anthropology, focused on the study of cultural variation
Social anthropology, the dominant constituent of anthropology throughout the United Kingdom
Archaeological and biological subfields
Outline of archaeology
Anthrozoological
Biocultural
Evolutionary, studies the relation between hominids and non-hominid primates
Feminist, seeks to reduce male bias in research finding
Forensic, application of anthropology in judicial settings
Maritime
Palaeoanthropological
Linguistics subfields
Outline of linguistics
Linguistic anthropology, the interdisciplinary study of how language influences social life
Descriptive
Ethno-
Historical
Semiotic, an approach to semantics
Sociolinguistics
Socio-cultural anthropology subfields
Applied anthropology, the application of the method and theory of anthropology to the analysis and solution of practical problems
Anthropology of art
Cognitive anthropology, concerned with what people from different groups know and how that implicit knowledge, in the sense of what they think subconsciously, changes the way people perceive and relate to the world around them
Communication studies
Cultural studies
Digital anthropology, the study of the relationship between humans and digital-era technology
Anthropology of development
Ecological anthropology
Economic anthropology
Historical anthropology
Anthropology of gender & sexuality
Kinship & family
Legal anthropology
Media anthropology
Medical anthropology
Political anthropology
Psychological anthropology, studies the interaction of cultural and mental processes
Public anthropology
Anthropology of religion
Transpersonal anthropology, studies the relationship between altered states of consciousness and culture
Urban anthropology, concerned with issues of urbanization, poverty, and neoliberalism
Visual anthropology, the study and production of ethnographic photography
Other subfields
Anthropological criminology, a combination of the study of the human species and the study of criminals
Anthropological linguistics, the study of the relations between language and culture and the relations between human biology, cognition and language
Anthropological theories of value, attempts to expand on the traditional theories of value used by economists or ethicists
Cyborg anthropology, studies the interaction between humanity and technology from an anthropological perspective
Museum anthropology, a domain that cross-cuts anthropology's sub-fields
Philosophical anthropology, dealing with questions of metaphysics and phenomenology of the human person
Theological anthropology, the study of the human as it relates to God
General anthropology concepts
Anthropological theories of value
Culture
Society
Kinship and descent
Marriage and family
Evolution
Material culture
Race and ethnicity
Globalization and postcolonialism
Socialization
Theories
Actor–network theory
Alliance theory
Cross-cultural studies
Cultural materialism
Culture theory
Feminism
Functionalism
Interpretive
Performance studies
Political economy
Practice theory
Structuralism
Post-structuralism
Systems theory
Methods and frameworks
Ethnography
Ethnology
Cross-cultural comparison
Participant observation
Online ethnography
Holism
Reflexivity
Thick description
Cultural relativism
Ethnocentrism
Emic and etic
Anthropology organizations
American Anthropological Association, a professional organization of scholars and practitioners in the field of anthropology
American Association of Physical Anthropologists, based in the United States
American Ethnological Society
Anthropological Society of London, founded 1863
Anthropological Society of Victoria, formed in 1934
Anthropological Survey of India, the apex Indian organisation involved in anthropological studies and field data research
Ardabil Anthropology Museum, a museum in Ardabil, Iran
Australian Anthropological Society, the professional association representing anthropologists in Australia
Center for World Indigenous Studies
Ethnological Society of London
Indian Anthropological Society, the representative body of the professional anthropologists in India
Institute of Anthropology and Ethnography, Russian institute of research, specializing in ethnographic studies of cultural and physical anthropology
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, a research institute based in Leipzig
Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, an anthropology museum located on the University of New Mexico campus
Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge, the university's collections of local antiquities, together with archaeological and ethnographic artefacts from around the world
National Anthropological Archives, an archive maintained by the Smithsonian Institution
Network of Concerned Anthropologists
N. N. Miklukho-Maklai Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology
Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Anthropology Centre, an academic institution in Thailand
Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, a long-established anthropological organisation
Society for Anthropological Sciences
Society for Applied Anthropology
Society for Medical Anthropology, an organization formed to promote study of anthropological aspects of health, illness, health care, and related topics
South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology, a University of South Carolina research institute
USC Center for Visual Anthropology, a center located at the University of Southern California
Books, journals, and other literature
Bibliography of anthropology
List of anthropology journals
Anthropology scholars
American
Franz Boas
Ruth Benedict
Margaret Mead
Eric Wolf
British
Bronislaw Malinowski
E.E. Evans-Pritchard
Alfred Radcliffe-Brown
Edmund Leach
French
Marcel Mauss
Claude Lévi-Strauss
Anthropology lists
List of members of the National Academy of Sciences (Anthropology)
List of museums with major collections in ethnography and anthropology
List of visual anthropology films
See also
Anthropological Index Online (AIO)
Intangible Cultural Heritage
Related fields
Ethnology
Folklore
Outline of archaeology
Outline of linguistics
Philosophical anthropology – which is not part of anthropology but a subfield of philosophy
Sociology
Theological anthropology – which is not part of anthropology but a subfield of theology
Periodic Table of Human Sciences / Anthropology in Tinbergen's four questions
References
External links
American Anthropological Association (AAA): What is Anthropology?
National Association for the Practice of Anthropology (NAPA): The Profession of Anthropology
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