forensic Anthroplogy
Uses anthropological knowledge to identify human remains at crime scenes, battlefields and sites of possible huan rights violations.
students learn the basics of skeletal analysis in miami's biological anthropology teaching laboratory
linguistic anthropology
the study of how human use language (and other symbols) to communicate
historical linguistics
the study of language change over time
ethnography of communication
the description of the contexts that make human communication effective and meaningful
miami professor jim hamill (emeritus) takes notes as he listens to Nepali teens speak
sociolinguistice
the study of relationships among language variation and social context
linguistic anthropologist Dr.Leighton Peterson
miami ATH major learning to use transcription software
Cultural Anthropology
describes and analyzes the beliefs people have about their social and material worlds, and the ways these affect human action