I. Subject matter---- anything related to:

A. Human--- prehistory, evolution, nature, condition

B. Culture or cultural--- evolution, diversity, relativism

C. Ethnicity--- ethnic, multiethnic society, ethnocentrism,
ethnocide

D. Indigenous --- native, aboriginal, "tribal" or "primitive"

II. Levels of analysis

A. Macro-level analysis

1. Diachronic (through time, especially prehistoric) = archaeology and paleontology

2. Comparative

a. Cross-species (humans and other primates) = primatology

b. Cross-cultural (universals, regularities or generalities, and particulars or uniqueness) = ethnology

B. Intermediate-level analysis (cultural area or region)

C. Micro-level analysis (individual or particular cultures)

1. Prehistoric culture = archaeology

2. Historic culture = ethnohistory

3. Contemporary culture = ethnography