An anthropological perspective encompasses the diversity and uniformity of humankind and the myriad of cultures at all times and in all places. To accomplish these holistic, multicultural goals, anthropology is a scientific field of study with several related subdivisions that specialize in various aspects of inquiry about humankind. One subdiscipline is cultural anthropology. Cultural anthropologistsfocus on understanding the various ways' people live in different societies worldwide in an attempt to explain the diversity and complexity of social behaviors. A second division is archaeology.
Archaeologists are concerned with understanding societies that existed in the past.
By examining the remains of past societies, archaeologists reconstruct the life ways of people. Linguistic anthropology is the third division and is concerned with the study of language. Anthropological linguists investigate the structure of language in general, the history of languages, and the manner in which languages change. The final major division is physical anthropology. Physical anthropologists analyze human evolution from our primate origins to the diversity of the present.