Concept information
Preferred term
anthropology
Definition
- Anthropology is concerned with varieties of cultural and social organization in comparative perspective. From the early days of its history, anthropology has been oriented to the study of the various ways in which human beings organize their daily lives, political systems, economic transactions, religious practices, and other dimensions of sociocultural life. [Source: International Encyclopedia of Organization Studies; Anthropology]
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- anthropological linguistics
- applied anthropology
- archaeology
- cultural/social anthropology
- educational anthropology
- ethnography
- ethnology
- evolution
- geography/geology
- key people in anthropology
- medical anthropology
- physical anthropology
- physical/biological anthropology
- research/theoretical frameworks
- social anthropology
- theology
Belongs to group
URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/anthropology
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