What is Anthropology?

Anthropology is the only discipline that seeks to understand all aspects of human life, including past and present social and cultural processes and biological adaptations.  It does so by focusing on human variation in time and space, with four traditionally recognized subfields: anthropological archaeology, physical/biological anthropology, social and cultural anthropology, and linguistic anthropology.  As a consequence of its broad focus, anthropology is also an integrative discipline that brings together scholarly work in the social sciences, natural sciences, and humanities. 

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