An Anthropology Concentration Anthropology is the study of human
beings from all times and all places, offering the most
holistic, comparative, international, and humanistic perspective
of the social sciences. In studying and interpreting the vast
range of similarities and differences in human societies and
cultures, anthropologists also seek to understand how people
themselves make sense of the world in which they live. A
concentration in Anthropology provides students with a broad
introduction to the discipline. Anthropology at Brown includes
sociocultural anthropology, archaeology, anthropological
linguistics, and biological anthropology. Each is widely
recognized as a major subfield of the discipline. Sociocultural
anthropology emphasizes contemporary societies and cultures, and
addresses issues such as gender and kinship, religion and
symbolism, ethnicity and nationalism, population and health, and
politics and violence. Archaeology studies the social lives and
adaptations of people in the past mostly th