ABSTRACT
Cultural anthropology makes a fundamental contribution to event studies, and indeed we have to thank this discipline for much of our existing understanding of festivals and celebrations in particular, and for providing the theoretical framework of rituals and liminality that we adapt to planned events in general. In contrast, the biological origins and variations of humans are the subject of ‘physical anthropology’. Cultural evolution is the focus of archaeology, which specifically examines physical remains of civilizations and human artefacts.
