Outline of anthropology

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to anthropology:

Anthropology – study of humanity. Anthropology has origins in the natural sciences, the humanities, and the social sciences. The term was first used by François Péron when discussing his encounters with Tasmanian Aborigines.

What type of thing is anthropology?

Anthropology can be described as all of the following:

• Academic discipline – body of knowledge given to - or received by - a disciple (student); a branch or sphere of knowledge, or field of study, that an individual has chosen to specialise in.
• Field of science – widely recognized category of specialized expertise within science, and typically embodies its own terminology and nomenclature. Such a field will usually be represented by one or more scientific journals, where peer reviewed research is published. There are many sociology-related scientific journals.
• Social science – field of academic scholarship that explores aspects of human society.

History of anthropology

History of anthropology

Fields of anthropology

• Archaeology
• Biological anthropology
• Linguistic anthropology
• Cultural anthropology
• Social anthropology

Archaeological and biological subfields

• Anthrozoological
• Biocultural
• Evolutionary
• Feminist
• Forensic
• Maritime
• Palaeoanthropological

Linguistics subfields

• Descriptive
• Ethno-
• Historical
• Semiotic
• Sociolinguistics

Socio-cultural anthropology subfields

• Applied anthropology
• Anthropology of art
• Cognitive anthropology
• Digital anthropology
• Anthropology of development
• Ecological anthropology
• Economic anthropology
• Historical anthropology
• Anthropology of gender & sexuality
• Kinship & family
• Legal anthropology
• Media anthropology
• Medical anthropology
• Political anthropology
• Psychological anthropology
• Public anthropology
• Anthropology of religion
• Transpersonal anthropology
• Urban anthropology
• Visual anthropology

General anthropology concepts

• Anthropological theories of value
• Culture
• Society
• Kinship and descent
• Marriage and family
• Evolution
• Material culture
• Race and ethnicity
• Globalization and postcolonialism
• Gender
• Socialization

Theories

• Actor–network theory
• Alliance theory
• Cross-cultural studies
• Cultural materialism
• Culture theory
• Feminism
• Functionalism
• Interpretive
• Performance studies
• Political economy
• Practice theory
• Structuralism
• Post-structuralism
• Systems theory

Methods and frameworks

• Ethnography
• Ethnology
• Cross-cultural comparison
• Participant observation
• Online ethnography
• Holism
• Reflexivity
• Thick description
• Cultural relativism
• Ethnocentrism
• Emic and etic

Anthropology organizations

• American Anthropological Association
• American Ethnological Society
• Moving Anthropology Student Network
• Anthropological Society of London
• Center for World Indigenous Studies
• Ethnological Society of London
• Institute of Anthropology and Ethnography
• Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
• Network of Concerned Anthropologists
• N. N. Miklukho-Maklai Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology
• Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland
• Society for anthropological sciences
• Society for Applied Anthropology
• USC Center for Visual Anthropology

Books, journals, and other literature

• Bibliography of anthropology
• List of anthropology journals

Anthropology scholars

• American
  • Franz Boas
  • Ruth Benedict
  • Margaret Mead
  • Eric Wolf

• British
  • Bronislaw Malinowski
  • E.E. Evans-Pritchard
  • Alfred Radcliffe-Brown
  • Edmund Leach

• French
  • Marcel Mauss
  • Claude Lévi-Strauss

Anthropology lists

• List of members of the National Academy of Sciences (Anthropology)
• List of museums with major collections in ethnography and anthropology
• List of visual anthropology films

See also

• Anthropological Index Online (AIO)
• Human evolution
• Intangible Cultural Heritage

Related fields

• Ethnology
• Folklore
• Philosophical anthropology– which is not part of anthropology but a subfield of philosophy
• Sociology
• Theological anthropology – which is not part of anthropology but a subfield of theology
• Periodic Table of Human Sciences / Anthropology in Tinbergen's four questions

External links

• American Anthropological Association (AAA): What is Anthropology?
• National Association for the Practice of Anthropology (NAPA): The Profession of Anthropology