Anthropology is an all-encompassing discipline, ranging from prehistory to modern times. It is the science that studies the laws of human evolution and development, including the formation process, evolutionary status, and distribution laws of various human races in the world. Distinguish the sociality and culture contained in human society from the perspective of culture and biology.

Anthropology is not about understanding culture from a distance, but about understanding the culture of various ethnic groups through personal experience, that is, fieldwork. This is also an excellent method that musical anthropology has learned from anthropology—the fieldwork method. In addition, anthropology focuses on placing ideas and methods in the analysis of current society, behavior and culture. Musical anthropology also follows suit, with the emergence of "study of music in culture" and "research of music culture" and many other concepts. This is why the topics and concepts that anthropology is passionate about will become hot research issues in musical anthropology over time. Fieldwork occupies an important core position in anthropology. Similarly, it is also a very important foundation in musical anthropology.

Since the core research methods of musical anthropology and anthropology are both fieldwork methods, do they have the same emphasis? In fact, there are still microscopic differences. For example, anthropology takes "human" as the subject, and around this subject, the biological development rules and cultural understanding of the human body are derived. For a long time, scholars have had their own opinions on whether music anthropology takes "people" or "music" as the subject. Assuming that there are no restrictions, I think that "music" and "people" are both the subjects of research; if we want to focus on it, "music" should be the most important, because the research we do all revolves around "music" Produced, without music there would be no us. As a social and cultural phenomenon, "music" is created, enjoyed and enjoyed by "people", so how can "music" and "people" be separated, how can they let go of one or the other. Therefore, musical anthropology takes "music" as the main subject, and "people" is a very important core factor.

To be continued...