Anthropology › Section A · What is anthropology? › Topic A.2
The four-field approach
No single kind of evidence can tell the whole human story. Anthropology splits the work into four fields, which study bodies, things, ways of life and words, and its best results come when they combine.
In this topic
- Four kinds of evidence
- Why four fields?
- Biological anthropology
- Archaeology
- Cultural anthropology
- Linguistic anthropology
- Worked example: settling the Pacific
- Worked example: the idea of race
- Where the fields meet
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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