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   Social anthropology

   Specialisations within social anthropology shift as its objects of study are transformed and as new intellectual paradigms appear; ethnomusicology and medical anthropology afford examples of current, well-defined specialisms.
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   Claude Lévi-Strauss

   At roughly the same time he published Structural Anthropology, a collection of his essays which provided both examples and programmatic statements about structuralism.
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   W. H. R. Rivers

   For the first time, British anthropology had been removed from its ‘armchair’ and placed into a sound empirical basis, providing the model for future anthropologists to follow. ... However, it provides a neat encapsulation of Rivers’s desire to subject possibly protopathic phenomena to the discipline of rigorous investigation.”
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   Anthropology

   Marcel Griaule and Michel Leiris are examples of people who combined anthropology with the French avant-garde. ... At the same time, David H. Price's work on American anthropology during the Cold War provides detailed accounts of the pursuit and dismissal of several anthropologists from their jobs for communist sympathies.
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   Franz Boas

   Physical anthropology ... This point provides the methodological foundation for Boas's cultural relativism: elements of a culture are meaningful in that culture's terms, even if they may be meaningless (or take on a radically different meaning) in another culture.
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   Feminist anthropology

   Nicholson, L. (1982) ‘Article Review on Rosaldo’s “The Use and Abuse of Anthropology,”’ in Signs, Vol 7, No. 42, pp732-735, ISSN 0097-9740
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   Cultural anthropology

   Modern cultural anthropology has its origins in, and developed in reaction to, 19th century "ethnology", which involves the organized comparison of human societies.
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   Visual anthropology

   Temple University: Temple has had a program in visual anthropology in some form since the late 1960s.
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   Psychological anthropology

   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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    Transpersonal anthropology

    Sheppard (2006) has noted how transpersonal anthropology can be said to have began in the USA in the 1970s.

Explore the following pages on Powerset:

• Social anthropology,
• Claude Lévi-Strauss,
• W. H. R. Rivers,
• Anthropology,
• Franz Boas,
• Feminist anthropology,
• Cultural anthropology,
• Visual anthropology,
• Psychological anthropology,
• Transpersonal anthropology