Anthropology

Anthropology may be dissected into four main perspectives, firstly physical or biological anthropology, which is an area of study concerned with human evolution and human adaptation. Its main components are human paleontology, the study of our fossil records, and human genetics, which examines the ways in which human beings differ from each other. Also adopted are aspects of human ecology, ethnology, demography, nutrition, and environmental physiology. From the physical anthropologist we learn the capabilities for …

…from adequate social assessment and understanding, This is one of the benefits offered by the social anthropological perspective through its holistic approach. Bibliography T.H. ERIKSEN "SMALL PLACES/LARGE ISSUES" LONDON 1996 PLUTO PRESS J.P. SPENDLEY "THE ETHNOGRAPHIC INTERVIEW" NEW YORK 1979 HOLT, REINHART AND WINSTON J. OKELY "THE TRAVELLER GYPSIES" CAMBRIDGE 1986 UNIVERSITY PRESS J. FRIEL & J.E. PFEIFFER "ANTHROPOLGY, THE STUDY OF PEOPLE" NEW YORK 1997 HARPER & ROW IMAGES SUPPLIED "INTERNET" (W.W.W.) CLASS NOTES.