anthropologies
Anthropologies, in plural, signals the diversity of approaches within the study of humans. Broadly, anthropology examines human beings—biological evolution, cultures, social organization, languages, and history. The field is commonly divided into four traditional subfields: cultural anthropology (living communities and social meaning), biological or physical anthropology (human evolution and variation), linguistic anthropology (language in social contexts and history), and archaeology (past societies through material remains). Many scholars also work in applied anthropology or in subfields like medical, economic, political, or environmental anthropology.
Methods vary, but ethnography and participant observation are central to cultural studies; interviews, surveys, archival research,
Historically, anthropology arose in the 19th century and evolved through functionalism, structuralism, processual and post-processual trends,
Today, anthropologies seek to describe human diversity and commonality, explain how culture, biology, language, and history