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   Anthropology

   Similarly, forensic anthropologists may use both techniques from both physical anthropology and archaeology, and may also practice as medical anthropologists.
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   Person-centered ethnography

   Person-centered ethnography is an approach within psychological anthropology that draws on techniques and theories from psychiatry and psychoanalysis to understand how individuals relate to and interact with their sociocultural context.
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   Psychological anthropology

   Adherents of this approach often assumed that techniques of child-rearing shaped adult personality and that cultural symbols (including myths, dreams, and rituals) could be interpreted using psychoanalytical theories and techniques. ... Cognitive anthropology takes a number of methodological approaches, but generally draws on the insights of cognitive science in its model of the mind.
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   History of anthropology

   Drawing on the methods of the natural sciences as well as developing new techniques involving not only structured interviews but unstructured "participant-observation" – and drawing on the new theory of evolution through natural selection, they proposed the scientific study of a new object: "humankind," conceived of as a whole. ... Anthropology
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   Medical anthropology

   They also contributed new methodological criteria for evaluating the new institutions resulting from the reforms as well as experimental care techniques such as therapeutic communities. ... Anthropology
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   Franz Boas

   Physical anthropology ... Nineteenth century historians had been applying the techniques of philology to reconstruct the histories of, and relationships between, literate societies.
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   Social sciences

   It is an application of pedagogy, a body of theoretical and applied research relating to teaching and learning and draws on many disciplines such as psychology, philosophy, computer science, linguistics, neuroscience, sociology and anthropology. ... The historical method comprises the techniques and guidelines by which historians use primary sources and other evidence to research and then to write history.
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   Forensic anthropology

   These techniques can be used to assess age, sex, stature, ancestry, and analyze trauma and disease. ... Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology Foundation (Spanish)
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   Archaeology

   It draws upon anthropology, history, art history, classics, ethnology, geography, geology, linguistics, physics, information sciences, chemistry, statistics, paleoecology, paleontology, paleozoology, paleoethnobotany, and paleobotany. ... It emphasizes the application of analytical techniques from physics, chemistry, and engineering.
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    Futures techniques

    A related field is alternate history, which assumes that the events at a critical point in past history turned out differently and then draws a fictional future timeline from that event. ... Social network analysis (also sometimes called network theory) has emerged as a key technique in modern sociology, anthropology, Social Psychology and organizational studies, as well as a popular topic of speculation and study.

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• Franz Boas,
• Social sciences,
• Forensic anthropology,
• Archaeology,
• Futures techniques