Cultural anthropology

Cultural anthropology is a branch of ethnology that looks at groups of people, and the forms of culture they developed. Sometimes it is also seen as a branch of anthropology.

• Physical anthropology looks at humans, and how their physical features developed over time.
• Linguistic anthropology looks at the way people use to communicate with each other, and at how things like languages developed.
• Archaeology
• Cultural anthropology looks at what culture people developed, and how these are different

Cultural Anthropology Media

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  Edward Burnett Tylor, founder of cultural anthropology

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  In the unilineal evolution model at left, all cultures progress through set stages, while in the multilineal evolution model at right, distinctive culture histories are emphasized.

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  Franz Boas (1858–1942), one of the pioneers of modern anthropology, often called the "Father of American Anthropology"

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  Margaret Mead (1901–1978)

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  Ruth Benedict, American anthropologist