This material was created by Tori Saneda for the ANTH&100 Survey of Anthropology class at Cascadia College, Bothell, WA. It will provide you with an overview of the discipline and the main concepts. It is not meant to be comprehensive as this is a survey course.

To cite this book:

Saneda, Tori M. 2022. “Survey of Anthropology.” Accessed date. https://openwa.pressbooks.pub/anth100/front-matter/introduction/.

Last Updated: March 2024

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Australopithecus sediba: Photo by Brett Eloff. Courtesy Profberger and Wits University who release it by CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Archaeology: Photo by Dougald O’Reilly, released by CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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