Jan 6, 2026 · anthropology, “the science of humanity,” which studies human beings in aspects ranging from the biology and evolutionary history of Homo sapiens to the features of society and culture that …

Jan 6, 2026 · Anthropology - Cultural, Biological, Archaeology: Anthropologists working in Africa and with African materials have made signal contributions to the theory and practice of anthropology.

anthropology, The “science of humanity.” Anthropologists study human beings in aspects ranging from the biology and evolutionary history of Homo sapiens to the features of society and culture that …

Jan 6, 2026 · Anthropology - Cultural, Biological, Archaeology: Cultural anthropology is that major division of anthropology that explains culture in its many aspects. It is anchored in the collection, …

Jan 6, 2026 · Anthropology - Culture, Society, Human Behavior: A distinctive “social” or “cultural” anthropology emerged in the 1920s. It was associated with the social sciences and linguistics, rather …

Jan 6, 2026 · Anthropology - Cultural, Biological, Archaeology: The modern discourse of anthropology crystallized in the 1860s, fired by advances in biology, philology, and prehistoric archaeology.

Jan 6, 2026 · The conventional story of social anthropology begins with James George Frazer ’s appointment to a chair with that title in Liverpool in 1908, but the appointment was a short-lived …

National Museum of Anthropology, in Mexico City, world-famous repository of some 600,000 art and other objects relating to Mexico. Many anthropological, ethnological, and archaeological materials in …

Jan 6, 2026 · Anthropology - Cultural Change, Adaptation, Evolution: Ethnographic fieldwork had been undertaken mainly in colonial situations characterized by contact between conquering and …

Jan 6, 2026 · From its inception, anthropology has been concerned with the processes that transform an infant with indefinite potential into an adult with a particular role in a particular group (family, society, …