What are the main methods anthropologists use Give an exampl

What are the main methods anthropologists use? Give an example of how urban anthropologists applied these methods to urban environments. 5-8 sentences

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Anthropologists use both objective,( i.e, scientific) and subjective (interpretive) methods. They also document their work so that other anthropologists can duplicate it. Anthropological research methods include: 1. Cultural Immersion 2. Human Ecology (analysis of how people interact with their environment) 3. linguistic analysis 4. archaeological analysis and 5. Physical Anthropological Research (analysis of human biology)

Cultural immersion: anthropologists interact with knowledgeable individuals of a society to record their culture. They also construct genealogies and maps to show how people in communities are related to one another.

Human ecology: cultural research is combined with studies of environments. Human ecology examines how people interact with their natural environments.

Linguistic Analysis: Language reveals much about a people’s culture.

Archaeological Analysis: specialized research methods and tools for the careful excavation and recording of the buried remains of past cultures.

Physical Anthropological Research: Paleoanthropologists and forensic anthropologists construct extremely detailed descriptions of people’s lives from only measurements of bones and teeth.