Title: What is Anthropology? | Anthropology
Headings: 
What is Anthropology?
Study of Humankind
Evolutionary Perspective
Cultural Anthropology
Linguistic Anthropology
Archaeology
Biological Anthropology
Anthropology as a Career
Training
Academic Work Setting
Nonacademic Work Setting

Content: To illustrate, imagine having our entire lives in a world of red. Our food, our clothing, our car—even the street we live on—everything around us a different shade of red. And yet ironically, in a scarlet world, isn’t it true that we will have no real grasp of the color red itself, nor even the concept of color, without being able to compare red with yellow, blue, green, and all the hues of the rainbow? We [anthropologists] have been the first to insist on a number of things: that the world does not divide into the pious and the superstitious; that there are sculptures in jungles and paintings in deserts; that political order is possible without centralized power and principled justice without codified rules; that the norms of reason were not fixed in Greece, the evolution of morality not consummated in England. Most important, we were the first to insist that we see the lives of others through lenses of our own grinding and that they look back on ours through ones of their own. — Clifford Geertz
Evolutionary Perspective
As a field, anthropology brings an explicit, evolutionary approach to the study of human behavior.