Anthropology is the holistic study of humankind.
Anthropology is holistic in that it can encompass every aspect of human society and culture in the present, and can trace human evolution and development over several million years of our past. It has the greatest geographical and topical breadth and chronological depth of any discipline that studies humans. The discipline of Anthropology is so broad, in fact, that it is divided into several major subdisciplines or subfields. Ethnography and ethnology. Overseas development anthropology.