‘Anthropology’ has interface with which field of human geography?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → Social Geography
Option (1) Urban Geography — Incorrect. Urban geography has its interface with urban studies and planning.
Option (2) Political Geography — Incorrect. Its sister discipline is political science; its sub-fields, electoral and military geography, link with psephology and military science.
Option (3) Social Geography — Correct. Social geography has its interface with the social sciences, and its sub-fields link with different disciplines. Its sub-field cultural geography has its interface with anthropology, and gender geography with sociology, anthropology and women’s studies.
Option (4) Population Geography — Incorrect. Population geography has its interface with demography, the study of the size and make-up of populations.
NCERT (2025-26): “Fields and Sub-fields of Human Geography … Human geography, as you have seen, attempts to explain the relationship between all elements of human life and the space they occur over. Thus, human geography assumes a highly inter-disciplinary nature. It develops close interface with other sister disciplines in social sciences in order to understand and explain human elements on the surface of the earth. With the expansion of knowledge, new sub-fields emerge and it has also happened to human geography. Let us examine these fields and sub-fields of Human Geography (Table 1.2).”
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