As I noted in my previous blog post, medical anthropology is the study of health and disease, and how they are influenced by culture and history. I believe that using the information known about the history of certain diseases, such as Alzheimer’s Disease, treatments can be developed for them.

In this post, I will be exploring and diving deep on medical anthropology. The rest of my posts will be focused on medical anthropology – its evolution, how humanity has dealt with various pandemics and the reasons for the general approach to healthcare. 

Let’s talk biological anthropology!

Biological anthropology is the study of human evolution and adaptability. Human evolution, as in how humans evolved from earlier life forms like primates. Biological anthropologists gather information on living populations, but specifically, nutrition, child growth, health in societies, genetics, and adaptation to the environment. There are many subfields of biological anthropology, including primatology, paleoanthropology, molecular anthropology, bioarcheology, forensic anthropology, and human biology.

This blog post will be about linguistic anthropology!

Linguistic anthropology is the study of language and how it influences social life. It came from the desire of many scientists to record languages that weren’t spoken anymore or were dying out. But in recent years, it has grown to be the study of language structure and use. There are three categories of linguist anthropology that have been studied: “anthropological linguistics”, “linguistic anthropology”, and lastly, looking at the issues associated with other fields of anthropology with a “linguistic lens”.

Anthropology is a broad topic and there are many types. These types include social, linguistic, biological, medical, and archaeological, though there are many more. Each type will have its own separate post. In this post, I will be talking about a very interesting and universal branch - social anthropology!