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Anthropology (, from the Greek , anthrōpos, "human", and -λογία, -logia, "discourse", first use in English: 1593)Nunes, Rossano Carvalho (2007) "Anthopology" is the holistic, global, comparative study of human beings. It is the comprehensive study of human beings and of their interactions with each other and the environment.
Anthropology has its intellectual origins in both the natural sciences and the humanities.Wolf, Eric (1994) Perilous Ideas: Race, Culture, People. Current Anthropology 35: 1-7. p.227 Its basic questions concern, "What defines Homo sapiens?" "Who are the ancestors of modern Homo sapiens?" "What are humans physical traits?" "How do humans behave?" "Why are there variations and differences among different groups of humans?" "How has the evolutionary past of Homo sapiens influenced its social organization and culture?" and so forth.
While specific modern anthropologists have a tendency to specialize in technical subfields, their data and ideas are routinely synthesized into larger works about the scope and progress of our species.Diamond, Jared. Guns, Germs and Steel. W.W. Norton. 2005; Johanson, Donald, Blake Edgar and David Brill. From Lucy to Language. Weidenfeld Nicolson 2001; Harris, Marvin. Culture, People, Nature: An Introduction to General Anthropology. Allyn & Bacon. 1997
The term "anthropology" refers in common parlance most often to Cultural Anthropology, the study of the culture, beliefs, and practices of living people. In American universities, however, the department of Anthropology often includes three or four subfields, including cultural anthropology, archaeology, biological anthropology and linguistic anthropology. However, in universities in the United Kingdom, and much of Europe, these fields are frequently housed in separate departments.Layton, Robert (1998) An Introduction to Theory in Anthropology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
A brief overview of the discipline
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