### extremely broad discipline:

Anthropology
* adopts such a cross cultural approach to learn about culture and society.
* also has important career applications.
* attempts to discover universals and patterns of human life.
* attempts to understand entire human condition over time and space
  - the whole panorama, in time and space, of the human condition
* basic way of understanding how people live and work together.
* bridges the natural and social sciences, and humanities.
* brings out commonalities that connect people.
* broad academic discipline interested in the whole of the human condition
  - discipline and anthropologists tend to be highly individualistic
* broad, holistic study of human beings.
* can affect public policies and issues.
* career that embraces people of all kinds.
* combines the perspectives of the sciences and the humanities.
* comes from notion of elaboration of differences.
* consists of a number of subfields, each of which examines a separate facet of humanity.
* contributes a distinctive and integrated perspective on humankind.
* covers every aspect of life from health to behaviour.
* cross cultural study of humankind.
* deals with all people everywhere who have ever lived
  - the beginnings of humanity, and stretches to ideas about humanity's future
* discipline that studies the biology and behavior of humankind.
* dynamic field of study.
* emphasizes the interaction of human biology, culture, and the environment
  - unity of humankind
* explores what it means to be human from many different perspectives.
* field of science.
* focuses on the development of culture.
* generally focuses on human groups.
* has a holistic approach, which means looking at all aspects, or the whole
  - rich tradition in the study of family relationships, courtships and kinships
* has the broadest scope of all the social sciences
  - honor of being the original interdisciplinary discipline
* helps students to better understand human similarities and differences.
* implies man in a much wider diachronical extension than prehistory.
* includes physical anthropology, archaeology, linguistics, and cultural anthropology.
* indeed becomes a branch of zoology.
* integrates a wide range of perspectives on human behavior, culture, and society.
* introduces a unique biocultural perspective to many areas of study.
* is about people.
* is also a social science with significant theoretical and technological components
  - wide-ranging field, so employment possibilities are similarly broad
* is an extremely broad discipline
  - liberating field of study
  - interdisciplinary field
* is at once a biological science, a social science, and one of the humanities
  - natural science and a humanistic discipline
  - both an applied and an academic discipline
  - by and large, the study of how people live
  - characterized by a concern with the origins of and changes in biology and culture
  - comparative
  - composed of four fields
  - comprised of four sub-fields
  - concerned with how culture influences every aspect of human life and society
* is divided into four subfields
  - primarily into physical anthropology and cultural anthropology
  - founded on interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary, and cross-cultural activities
  - much more than just archaeology or ethnography
* is one branch of the social sciences
  - of the few academic studies that has a code of ethics
  - paleontology
  - related to the discipline of sociology , but has a distinct history and focus
* is the biological study and cultural study of humanity
  - broad study of humankind around the world and throughout time
  - comparative cross-cultural study of human nature and human possibilities
* is the comparative study of humanity
  - people and societies across space and time
  - the human species
  - comprehensive study of human beings as they socialize and symbolize
  - cross-cultural study of human societies
* is the discipline devoted to the study of the human species
  - that concerns itself with all that it means to be human
  - evolutionary, cross-cultural study of human behavior
* is the holistic and comparative study of human beings
  - cross-cultural study of humankind
* is the holistic study of culture, past and present
  - human cultures and the human place in nature
  - integrated study of humans in all their aspects
* is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities
  - liberating of all the sciences
* is the science of people and culture
  - the study of cultural diversity
  - scientific and humanistic study of humanity in all times and places
* is the scientific study of all humanity , ancient and modern
  - humanity and of human culture
  - social science dedicated to the holistic investigation of human life
* is the study of all aspects of humanity at all times
  - ancient and modern human beings and their ways of living
* is the study of human behavior, beliefs, and adaptations
  - beings from their origins to their present world-wide diversity
  - beings, their cultures, behaviour and products
  - biological and cultural variation, both past and present
  - biology and culture and the interaction between the two
* is the study of human cultural and biological diversity over time and space
  - culture in past and contemporary societies
  - diversity past and present
  - evolution, biology, society and culture
  - kind in all times and places
  - life in all places and at all times
* is the study of human nature, human society, and the human past
  - origins and development
  - humanity, past and present, in both simple and complex societies
* is the study of humankind and all our works
  - everywhere, throughout time
  - of ancient and modern peoples and their ways of living
  - humankind, of ancient and contemporary people and their ways of living
* is the study of humans and their behavior
  - their works
  - humans' ways of life, or culture
  - living peoples and everything they do
  - man in all times and in all places
  - past and present human societies
* is the study of people and culture
  - at all times and places
  - in different culture settings
* is the study of people, so start observing the myriad of cultures in our community
  - their cultures, customs, languages, and origins
  - social and cultural systems, beliefs and practices
  - the development and origins of human beings
* is the study of the origin and development of humankind
  - and development of mankind
  - thus a margino-centric discipline
  - what anthropologists do
* links the social sciences, natural sciences, arts and humanities.
* natural science, a social science, and one of the humanities.
* now studies both Western and non-Western cultures.
* offers increased sensitivity to ethnic and population diversity.
* part of all major natural history and historical museums in the U.S. and abroad.
* provides a basis for understanding human cultural and physical diversity
  - comprehensive perspective on the human endeavor
  - different point of view in understanding the human experience
  - way to examine the personal, individual and social roles of tattooing
  - both primary data and methodological tools for the analysis of any data
  - evidence that all human beings are black
  - insights into what is happening and how to respond pastorally
* relatively new discipline.
* remains a strong source of cultural criticism.
* requires research on humans, primates, or artifacts.
* scientific field of study with several divisions.
* seeks to uncover principles of behavior that apply to all human communities
  - understand the entire panorama of human behavior and experience
* serves as an excellent background to many other behavioral sciences.
* small world.
* social science and papers follow a more scientific than literary format
  - that studies what it means to be human
* specializes in the study of human beings and their cultures, anywhere and at all times.
* strong major in the liberal arts tradition.
* takes a special view of religion that is non-judgmental and broadly comparative.
* teaches people how to be citizens of the world
  - that the earth has been inhabited by man for at least half a million years
* traces human footprints from their beginnings, millions of years ago, to the present.
* tries to bring the world's peoples into human focus.
* works with the whole cultural history of two million years or more.
+ Human body, Fields of study: Anatomy
  * Anthropology is a field of science. It compares humans to other hominids. It also studies all other hominid bodies. They look at how humans and chimpanzees are the same or different.