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Franz Boas (1858–1942) founder of the Boasian tradition in American anthropology

Boasian anthropology was a school within American anthropology founded by Franz Boas in the late 19th century.

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Boasian anthropology

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Boasian anthropology was a school within American anthropology founded by Franz Boas in the late 19th century. Boasian anthropology was based on the four-field...

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Franz Boas

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understanding of anthropology as Geisteswissenschaften and Geschichtswissenschaften, there is one essential element that Boasian anthropology shares with...

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Cultural anthropology

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linguistic, and archaic anthropology (e.g. archaeology). Anthropology in the United States continues to be deeply influenced by the Boasian tradition, especially...

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History of anthropology

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for the unique Canadian style of anthropology. Scholars include the linguist and Boasian Edward Sapir. Anthropology in France has a less clear genealogy...

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Anthropology

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Anthropology is the scientific study of humanity, concerned with human behavior, human biology, cultures, societies, and linguistics, in both the present...

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Linguistic anthropology

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Linguistic anthropology is the interdisciplinary study of how language influences social life. It is a branch of anthropology that originated from the...

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Biological anthropology

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Biological anthropology, also known as physical anthropology, is a scientific discipline concerned with the biological and behavioral aspects of human...

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Marshall Sahlins

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his contributions to anthropological theory. He was the Charles F. Grey Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and of Social Sciences...

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Practice theory

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praxeology, theory of social practices) is a body of social theory within anthropology and sociology that explains society and culture as the result of structure...

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Applied anthropology

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"The Aims of Anthropology" and John Van Willengen simply defined applied anthropology as "anthropology put to use" Applied anthropology includes conducting...

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Ethnocentrism

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Ethnocentrism in social science and anthropology—as well as in colloquial English discourse—means to apply one's own culture or ethnicity as a frame of...

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Niece and nephew

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"Ethnogenealogical method". In Ward Hunt Goodenough (ed.). Explorations in Cultural Anthropology: Essays in Honor of George Peter Murdock. McGraw-Hill. p. 35. "nephew...

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Cultural relativism

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and as a professor at Columbia University, was situated firmly in the Boasian lineage) suggested that the first claim "may have been a loophole to exclude...

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Symbolic anthropology

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Symbolic anthropology or, more broadly, symbolic and interpretive anthropology, is the study of cultural symbols and how those symbols can be used to...

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Anthropological linguistics

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Anthropological linguistics is the subfield of linguistics and anthropology which deals with the place of language in its wider social and cultural context...

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Cognitive anthropology

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Cognitive anthropology is an approach within cultural anthropology and biological anthropology in which scholars seek to explain patterns of shared knowledge...

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Ernest Becker

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returned to Syracuse University to pursue graduate studies in cultural anthropology, and would complete his PhD in 1960. The first of his nine books, Zen:...

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Edward Sapir

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Murdock became the chair of the anthropology department. Murdock, who despised the Boasian paradigm of cultural anthropology, dismantled most of Sapir's efforts...

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Gregory Bateson

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before World War II in the South Pacific in New Guinea and Bali doing anthropology. In the 1940s, he helped extend systems theory and cybernetics to the...

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Social anthropology

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cultural anthropology. In the United States, social anthropology is commonly subsumed within cultural anthropology or sociocultural anthropology.[citation...

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Economic anthropology

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Economic anthropology is a field that attempts to explain human economic behavior in its widest historic, geographic and cultural scope. It is an amalgamation...

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Marvin Harris

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produced an unremarkable village study that carried on the Boasian descriptive tradition in anthropology—a tradition he would later denounce. After graduation...

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Social structure

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deconstruction of the binaries that underlie classic sociological and anthropological reasoning (notably the universalizing tendencies of Lévi-Strauss's...

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Linguistic description

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Cultural Anthropology: An Encyclopedia. Vol. 1. SAGE Publications, Inc. pp. 184–187. ISBN 9781412999632. Haviland, William A. (2005). Cultural Anthropology: The...

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Systems theory in anthropology

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Systems theory in anthropology is an interdisciplinary, non-representative, non-referential, and non-Cartesian approach that brings together natural and...

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Clifford Geertz

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for his strong support for and influence on the practice of symbolic anthropology and who was considered "for three decades... the single most influential...

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Digital anthropology

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techno-anthropology, digital ethnography, cyberanthropology, and virtual anthropology. Most anthropologists who use the phrase "digital anthropology" are...

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