Anthropology is the study of humans using the approach through the relationship between human culture and biology. Using this relationship to determine how biology and culture affect one another. Anthropology focuses on human biological and physiological characteristics and their evolution.

Cultural anthropology is the branch of anthropology concerned with the study of human societies and cultures and their development. This subfield is called cultural anthropology which focuses on understanding the cultural behavior of living human groups and collecting data among diverse groups and observing aspects of their behavior. Some examples can include; marriage, customs, religion and social systems.

Linguistic anthropology is the interdisciplinary study of how language influences social lives of individuals and communities, exploring how language shapes communication. Another consideration is why there are variations between languages distributed across the world and why the variations exist and how they are used.

Archaeology, another subfield, is the study of human history and prehistory through the excavation of sites and the analysis of artifacts and other physical remains. The main goal is to seek to document and explain variations in human behavior focusing on behaviors in the past that cannot be observed. Through observation and interpretation of material culture artifacts archaeologists piece together and reconstruct aspects of ancient behavior.

The Society for Cultural Anthropology is a professional organization representing the subfield of anthropology; cultural anthropology. The Society for Cultural Anthropology highlights a concern for culture and to foster interdisciplinary connections and is dedicated to interrogating and challenging the boundaries of the discipline. This society publishes ethnographic writing informed by a wide array of theoretical perspectives with both traditional and emerging topics and also includes theories from the broader themes of anthropology as discussed.

As mentioned in the slides an important principal in the anthological investigation is holism. Holism is the theory that parts of a whole are in intimate interconnection, such that they cannot exist independently of the whole, or cannot be understood without reference to the whole, which is thus regarded as greater than the sum of its parts.

As anthropology is considered to be holistic these subfields are combined in different ways to study humans.

There is one article published through this society, called “Animating Relations” focusing on the intimacies between the living and the dead. This can focus back to archaeology since archaeologist are focused on the behaviors in the past and cannot be observed. The article focuses on the study of human behavior through material and biological culture left behind and the link between them. This interconnects archaeology and cultural anthropology.

Anthropology deals with human beings from every possible angles and there is often overlappings of biological historical and cultural dimensions which is uniquely dealt with by the anthropologists. It is possible because anthropologists are trained to see world as connected and hence takes a holistic approach. Archaeology simply put is anthropology of the past people.

This study contributes to the broader themes of anthropology, such as archaeology because it uses both of these subfields to represent biological anthropology.