cultural anthropology
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cultural anthropology, a major division of anthropology that deals with the study of culture in all of its aspects and that uses the methods, concepts, and data of archaeology, ethnography and ethnology, folklore, and linguistics in its descriptions and analyses of the diverse peoples of the world. ... (47 of 5637 words)
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Assorted References
- major reference (in anthropology: Cultural anthropology)
- comparison to ethnography (in ethnography)
- division of social sciences (in social science: Cultural anthropology)
- history of anthropology (in anthropology: Social and cultural anthropology)
- school of particularism (in particularism (anthropology))
- scope of social sciences (in social science: Cultural anthropology)
contribution by
- Benedict (in Ruth Benedict (American anthropologist and author))
- Frobenius (in Leo Frobenius (German ethnologist))
- Gallatin (in Albert Gallatin (United States government official))
- Linton (in Ralph Linton (American anthropologist))
- Malinowski (in Bronisław Malinowski (British anthropologist))
- Murdock (in George P. Murdock (American anthropologist))
- Powdermaker (in Hortense Powdermaker (American cultural anthropologist))
- Radcliffe-Brown (in A.R. Radcliffe-Brown (British anthropologist))
- Thurnwald (in Richard Thurnwald (German ethnologist))
- Vico (in Giambattista Vico (Italian philosopher))
relation to
- philosophical anthropology (in philosophical anthropology: Origins and terminology)
- physical anthropology (in rite of passage)
- sociology (in sociology)
theories of
- magic (in magic (supernatural phenomenon): Postcolonial points of views)
- totemism (in totemism (religion): McLennan to Thurnwald)
People
The following are some people associated with "cultural anthropology"
- A.L. Kroeber (American anthropologist)
- A.R. Radcliffe-Brown (British anthropologist)
- Alfred Cort Haddon (British anthropologist)
- Alfred M. Tozzer (American anthropologist)
- Alice Cunningham Fletcher (American anthropologist)
- Bronisław Malinowski (British anthropologist)
- C.G. Seligman (British anthropologist)
- Clark Wissler (American anthropologist)
- Claude Lévi-Strauss (French anthropologist)
- Clifford Geertz (American anthropologist)
- Clyde K.M. Kluckhohn (American anthropologist)
- Edward Sapir (American linguist)
- Elsie Clews Parsons (American anthropologist)
- Fei Xiaotong (Chinese social anthropologist)
- Franz Boas (German-American anthropologist)
- Fritz Graebner (German ethnologist)
- George P. Murdock (American anthropologist)
- Géza Róheim (American ethnologist)
- Giambattista Vico (Italian philosopher)
- Horatio Hale (American anthropologist)
- John Ferguson McLennan (Scottish lawyer and ethnologist)
- John Wesley Powell (American geologist)
- José María Arguedas (Peruvian author)
- Joseph H. Greenberg (American anthropologist and linguist)
- Julian Steward (American anthropologist)
- Karl Ernst, Ritter von Baer (Prussian embryologist)
- Katherine Dunham (American dancer, choreographer, and anthropologist)
- Kenneth L. Pike (American linguist)
- Leslie A. White (American anthropologist)
- Lewis Henry Morgan (American anthropologist)
- Marcel Mauss (French sociologist and anthropologist)
- Margaret Mead (American anthropologist)
- Matilda Coxe Stevenson (American ethnologist)
- Paul Radin (American anthropologist)
- Richard Thurnwald (German ethnologist)
- Robert H. Lowie (American anthropologist)
- Robert Redfield (American anthropologist)
- Ruth Benedict (American anthropologist and author)
- Sir Baldwin Spencer (British anthropologist)
- Sir Edward Burnett Tylor (British anthropologist)
- Sir Edward Evans-Pritchard (British anthropologist)
- Sir James George Frazer (British anthropologist)
- Sir Peter Buck (Maori anthropologist, physicist, and politician)
- Sir Raymond Firth (New Zealand anthropologist)
- Thor Heyerdahl (Norwegian ethnologist)
- W. Lloyd Warner (American sociologist)
- Wilhelm Schmidt (German-Austrian anthropologist and linguist)
- William Duncan Strong (American anthropologist)
- William Robertson Smith (Scottish scholar)
- Zora Neale Hurston (American author)
Other
The following is a selection of items (artistic styles or groups, constructions, events, fictional characters, organizations, publications) associated with "cultural anthropology"
- age-area hypothesis (anthropology)
- anthropological linguistics
- anthropology
- cultural anthropology
- cultural anthropology
- cultural evolution (social science)
- cultural globalization (anthropology)
- culture area (anthropological concept)
- culture-and-personality studies (anthropological school)
- ethnobotany
- ethnography
- ethnomusicology
- functionalism (social science)
- Kulturkreis (anthropology)
- particularism (anthropology)
- social equilibrium (sociology)
- structuralism (anthropology)
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