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Broadly speaking, the subfields of anthropology can be broken down into two different areas. What are they?
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Biological and Cultural
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Biological Anthropology is one of the major subfields of anthropology. It can be broken down further into what two areas?
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Paleontdogy/Paleoanthropology and Primatology
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These anthropologists study the emergence and evolution of humans.
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Paleontdogists/Paleoanthropologists
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These anthropologists study animals related to humans in order to better know people.
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Primatologsists
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Cultural anthropology is one of the major subfields of anthropology. It can be broken down further into what three areas?
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Archaeology, Anthropological Linguistics and Ethnology
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These anthropologists study past cultures through their material remains.
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Archaeologists
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These anthropologists study the history and culture of languages
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Anthropological linguists
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These anthropologists study existing and recent cultures
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Ethnologists
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Ethnology is a subfield of Cultural anthropology. It can be broken down into what three subfields (sub-sub-subfields????)
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Ethnography, Ethnohistory and Cross-Cultural Research
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The best stereotype of anthropologists are people who go off to far-flung, exotic cultures and hang with the natives. What kind of anthropologists would this probably be?
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Cultural Anthropologists, probably Ethnographers
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When an anthropologist of any kind uses the information they learn to go beyond sating curiousity, what kind of anthropology are they doing?
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Applied anthropology
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What do primatologists study and why?
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They study animals related to humans, primates, in order to learn more about people.
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What do archaeologists study and why?
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Archaeologists stdy the material remains of past cultures to learn about historic and pre-historic (before written records) peoples and cultures.
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What do paleontdogists/paleoanthropologists study and why?
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They study the emergence and evolution of humans, particularly the biological variances, in order to understand modern people better.
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