ANTH 1002B - Fields, Subfields & Formation of Anthropological View

This annotated bibliography provides a detailed overview of various fields and subfields within anthropology, focusing on how these areas contribute to the formation of an anthropological perspective. It includes annotations of books and journal articles, summarizing their content, assessing their strengths and weaknesses, and evaluating their reliability. The bibliography covers topics such as the archaeology of knowledge, the integration of social and biological anthropology, the nature of anthropology as a discipline, and the evolution of anthropological concepts. Journals discuss socio-ecological systems, social power, diversity, and the importance of classifying anthropological study into four fields. The resources used are reliable and well-researched, offering a comprehensive understanding of anthropology and its diverse perspectives.

Running head: Anthropology
DISCUSSING VARIOUS FIELDS AND SUB FIELDS OF
ANTHROPOLOGY AND THE FORMATION OF AN
ANTHROPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE

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Annotated bibliography
Books
Foucault, M. (2013). Archaeology of knowledge. Routledge. 11(2), 3-233. Retrieved on: 4th Feb,
2019, From: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203604168
This book deals with a historiographical treatise where the author revisits history but from an
anthropological perspective. For that reason, an archeological method has been implemented.
Archeology is one of the sub fields of anthropology and thus this book perfectly illuminates what
it means to have an anthropological perspective through employing an archeological
methodology. Moreover, this book is a very well researched work because a wide range of
reliable source of refernces has been used in this book.
Ingold, T., &Palsson, G. (2013). Biosocial becomings: integrating social and biological
anthropology. Cambridge University Press. Retrieved on: 4th Feb, 2019, From:
https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781139198394
This book revolves around a new anthropological perception that combines two sub fields of
anthropology including socio-cultural and biological anthropology. Theories of many famous
anthropologists have been used as evidence in order to justify the importance of combining the
above mentioned sub fields of anthropology. Moreover, the book offers a rarely explored side of
anthropological perspective that makes the book more interesting and creative in its approach.
Kilmurray, H., & Lee F. (2018). The nature of anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, 10(4), 3-26.
This particular chapter in the book focuses on the nature of anthropology in detail. Apart from
that, various fields of anthropology have been discussed here along with sub fields of
anthropology. Moreover, anthropology has been explained as a discipline. The resources that
have been used in this chapter as evidences are reliable.
Rapport, N. (2014). Social and cultural anthropology: The key concepts. Routledge. 5(2), 1-
445.Retrieved on: 4th Feb, 2019, From: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8676.2009.00064_14.x
This book focuses on various significant aspects of social anthropology and concepts related to
cultural anthropology such as concepts of kinship, stereotypes and so on. For that reason, a wide

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range of reliable source of references, including both literary and primary sources, has been used
here for presenting an argumentative and complex outlook on cultural anthropological
perspective. Thus, it can be said that the book is well researched and reliable. Specifically, the
book contains several essays by significant writers of anthropological studies that deal with how
the diverse range of anthropological concepts has been evolved over the course of time. Thus,
this book will be helpful for this study for viewing cultural anthropology as an interdisciplinary
perspective that has its impact on sociology, psychology, philosophy, linguistics and so on.

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Journals
Fabinyi, M., Evans, L., & Foale, S. J. (2014). Social-ecological systems, social diversity, and
power: insights from anthropology and political ecology. 19(4), 1-8. Retrieved on: 4th Feb, 2019,
From: https://ore.exeter.ac.uk/repository/bitstream/handle/10871/17975/Fabinyi%20et%20al.,
%20E%26S.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
This journal article discusses anthropological perspective while talking about socio-ecological
systems and social power and diversity. In order to be specific, the journal mainly illuminates
socio-cultural anthropology and how it shapes an anthropological perspective. Moreover, this
journal is useful and is well researched.
Hicks, D. (2013). Four-field anthropology: Charter myths and time warps from St. Louis to
Oxford. Current Anthropology, 54(6), 753-763. Retrieved on: 4th Feb, 2019, From:
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/673385
This journal illuminates a model of anthropology that includes four sub fields of anthropology.
On the other hand, the journal discusses the importance of classifying anthropological study into
four fields. Moreover, the role of these fields in forming an anthropological perspective or
knowledge has been discussed in this journal. Thus, this work is a very useful resource for the
topic of the study. Both primary and secondary sources of evidence have been used in this work.
Over all, this journal is well executed and is based on reliable sources.
Latour, B. (2017). Anthropology at the time of the Anthropocene: a personal view of what is to
be studied. In The anthropology of sustainability, 10(1), 35-49. Palgrave Macmillan, New York.
Retrieved on: 4th Feb, 2019, From:
http://sector2337.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Latour_Anthropocene.pdf
This journal article talks about the evolution of the concept of anthropology and how it evolved
in the course of time. In addition, this journal gives a brief description of the things that need to
be studied in order to understand anthropology clearly. Moreover, this journal explains what an
anthropological perspective is. A reflective approach has been used as the basis of evidence in
the article. Over all, the work is well written and is useful in gathering knowledge about
anthropology in general.

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