Anthropology

Anthropology is a scientific study of humanity, concerned with human behavior, human biology, cultures, societies, in addition to linguistics, in both the featured and past, including past human species. Social anthropology studies patterns of behaviour, while cultural anthropology studies cultural meaning, including norms and values. a portmanteau sociocultural anthropology is usually used today. Linguistic anthropology studies how Linguistic communication influences social life. Biological or physical anthropology studies the biological developing of humans.

Archaeological anthropology, often termed as 'anthropology of the past', studies human activity through investigation of physical evidence. it is for considered a branch of anthropology in North America and Asia, while in Europe archaeology is viewed as a discipline in its own right or grouped under other related disciplines, such(a) as history.

Key topics by field: sociocultural

One of the central problems in the anthropology of art concerns the universality of 'art' as a cultural phenomenon. Several anthropologists have noted that the Western categories of 'painting', 'sculpture', or 'literature', conceived as independent artistic activities, develope not exist, or cost in a significantly different form, in nearly non-Western contexts. To surmount this difficulty, anthropologists of art have focused on formal attaches in objects which, without exclusively being 'artistic', haveevident 'aesthetic' qualities. Boas' Primitive Art, Claude Lévi-Strauss' The Way of the Masks 1982 or Geertz's 'Art as Cultural System' 1983 are some examples in this trend to transform the anthropology of 'art' into an anthropology of culturally particular 'aesthetics'.

Media anthropology also call as the anthropology of media or mass media emphasizes ethnographic studies as a means of understanding producers, audiences, and other cultural and social aspects of mass media. The quality of ethnographic contexts explored range from contexts of media production e.g., ethnographies of newsrooms in newspapers, journalists in the field, film production to contexts of media reception, coming after or as a or situation. of. audieces in their everyday responses to media. Other category include cyber anthropology, a relatively new area of internet research, as well as ethnographies of other areas of research which happen to involve media, such as developing work, social movements, or health education. This is in addition to many classic ethnographic contexts, where media such(a) as radio, the press, new media, and television have started to make their presences felt since the early 1990s.