MAIN BRANCHES OF ANTHROPOLOGY

Main branches of Anthropology 

Four fold division of Anthropology 

Why there is need of four fold division of Anthropology ?

Anthropology is normally described as the science of man in totality...

It is not possible for a single Anthropology to study and investigate personally 

Everything that has to do with man.. That is why Anthropology is divided into various branches and sub - fields and individual anthropologists specialize in one or more of these ...

Mainly 4 branches 

Franz boas gave four fold division of Anthropology ?

1 . Physical / Biological Anthropology 

2. Social Cultural Anthropology 

3. Archaeological Anthropology 

4.Linguistic Anthropology 

Physical / Biological Anthropology 

Biological Anthropology also know as physical Anthropology is a scientific discipline concerned with the biological and behavioral aspects of human beings..their related non - human primates and their extinct hominid ancestors..it is a subfield of Anthropology that provides a biological perspective to the systematic study of human beings...

Socio Culture Anthropology 

Socio-culture Anthropology includes study of wats of life of people in terms of place and time ..The basic aim of socio-cultural Anthropology is to generate meaningful scientific law of human behavior across the world..

Archeological Anthropology 

It is study of material objects as a means of describing and explaining human behaviour and origin , growth and development of human culture...

Linguists Anthropology 

Linguistic Anthropology is the interdisciplinary study of how language influences social life. ..

It is a Branch of a Anthropology that originated from the endeavor to document endangered languages , and has growth over the past century to encompass most aspects of language structure and use ...