American anthropology has culture as its central and unifying concept. This most commonly refers to the universal human capacity to classify and encode...

Anthropology is the scientific study of humanity, concerned with human behavior, human biology, cultures, societies, and linguistics, in both the present...

The American Anthropological Association (AAA) is an organization of scholars and practitioners in the field of anthropology. With 10,000 members, the...

Biological anthropology, also known as physical anthropology, is a social science discipline concerned with the biological and behavioral aspects of human...

History of anthropology in this article refers primarily to the 18th- and 19th-century precursors of modern anthropology. The term anthropology itself, innovated...

Boasian anthropology was a school within American anthropology founded by Franz Boas in the late 19th century. Boasian anthropology was based on the four-field...

Cultural anthropology is a branch of anthropology focused on the study of cultural variation among humans. It is in contrast to social anthropology, which...

cultural anthropology. In the United States, social anthropology is commonly subsumed within cultural anthropology or sociocultural anthropology. The term...

sub-focus group within the American Anthropological Association's annual meeting in 1992 presented a paper entitled "Cyborg Anthropology", which cites Haraway's...

paper "The Aims of Anthropology". John Van Willengen defined applied anthropology as "anthropology put to use". Applied anthropology includes conducting...

The American Journal of Biological Anthropology (previously known as the American Journal of Physical Anthropology) is a peer-reviewed scientific journal...

feminist anthropology challenges essentialist feminist theories developed in Europe and America. While feminists practiced cultural anthropology since its...

socially. American anthropology is organized into four fields, each of which plays an important role in research on culture: biological anthropology, linguistic...

founding influence of cultural anthropology, is one of the most important figures in the history of American anthropology. Like many of his contemporaries...

disciplines during the early 2000s. The ontological turn in anthropology is not concerned with anthropological notions of culture, epistemology, nor world views...

Forensic anthropology is the application of the anatomical science of anthropology and its various subfields, including forensic archaeology and forensic...

most highly developed areas of anthropology and applied anthropology, and is a subfield of social and cultural anthropology that examines the ways in which...

German-American anthropologist and ethnomusicologist. He was a pioneer of modern anthropology who has been called the "Father of American Anthropology". His...

distinguished American anthropology from its European counterpart; while European anthropology largely focused on ethnography, American anthropology began to...

Legal anthropology, also known as the anthropology of laws, is a sub-discipline of anthropology that uses an interdisciplinary approach to "the cross-cultural...

In North America, anthropology is traditionally divided into four major subdisciplines: biological anthropology, sociocultural anthropology, linguistic...

Cognitive anthropology is an approach within cultural anthropology and biological anthropology in which scholars seek to explain patterns of shared knowledge...

subfields of anthropological study, such as cyborg anthropology. The Digital Anthropology Group (DANG) is classified as an interest group in the American Anthropological...

provided as an overview of and topical guide to anthropology: Anthropology – study of humankind. Anthropology has origins in the natural sciences – humanities...

American Anthropologist: premier journal of the American Anthropological Association, incorporating all four fields Annual Review of Anthropology: published...

using a term that is more meaningful to the American people." The AAA also stated: The American Anthropological Association recommends the elimination of...

Anthropology of an American Girl is the first novel by American author Hilary Thayer Hamann. It is the story of a search for authenticity told in the...

The Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Arizona also focuses on social sciences with faculty from Anthropology, Geography, Political...

Visual anthropology is a subfield of social anthropology that is concerned, in part, with the study and production of ethnographic photography, film and...

2021) was an American cultural anthropologist best known for his ethnographic work in the Pacific and for his contributions to anthropological theory. He...