How is anthropology different from the other social sciences?
What distinguishes anthropology from the other social sciences is that it is holistic and comparative. It is holistic because anthropologists are interested in the whole of the human condition: past, present, and future; biology, society, language, and culture. In contrast to other social sciences, for example, it studies how economics, religion, history, psychology, political science, and sociology all interact and are expressed in culture. It is comparative because it studies all human cultures, past and present, not just Western cultures or those with written histories.
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