Allen Bacud
ANTH 310
8/28/24
Short Essay #1
Cultural Anthropology is about how anthropologists study behavior, emotions and the
way different cultures live their lives. In Archaeology, archaeologists study remnants usually
from older civilizations, to better understand how they lived back then. Linguistic Anthropology
involves the study of how culture and language are influenced by one another. And Biological
Anthropology is a study about understanding our history as a species and how we evolved, to get
insight on how our ancestors may have functioned and lived back then. Commonalities that these
subfields have is that they all study the many aspects of what it means to be a human and to
better understand the human species and the various cultures that exist. They study our past,
what we used to do, looked like. And even how us humans behave, speak, and do everyday
activities. Between the four subfields of Anthropology, Linguistic Anthropology least appeals to
me. I feel this way because I don’t understand what makes learning about the history of how
language originated as interesting, and how we used language to get to where we are as a
species. I see the other subfields as more interesting topics of study since I’m least familiar with
our origin as a species, how our ancestors lived in the past and don’t fully understand much
about other cultures outside the U.S.