Ozarks Technical 
Community College

This course introduces the student to the four sub-fields of anthropology:  physical/biological, ethnology/cultural, linguistic and archaeological/material.  The human condition will be studied using the various methods and theories that are specific to each sub-discipline. 

Cultural Anthropology, also known as ethnology, social anthropology or sociocultural anthropology, is the largest of the four ‘fields’ or sub-disciplines of anthropology. Cultural anthropologists study the ways in which people live throughout the world and write accounts of cultures, known as ethnographies, to gain insights into the human condition. Cultural anthropology also compares the ways of living, developing concepts and theories that apply to all cultures and making cross-cultural generalizations about human behavior.