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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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   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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   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. ... For Lévi-Strauss, the methods of linguistics became a model for all his earlier examinations of society.
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   Anthropology

   In the 1950s and mid-1960s anthropology tended increasingly to model itself after the natural sciences. ... 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

   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. ... Boas's stance against spying took place in the context of his struggle to establish a new model for academic anthropology at Columbia University.
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   Economic anthropology

   Some formalists use game theory as a model of rational behavior under specific cultural or interpersonal constraints. ... Society for economic anthropology
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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

   Winkelman, Michael (1986) "Trance States: A Theoretical Model and Cross-Cultural Analysis." ... Anthropology of religion
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   Virtuous pagan

   He also felt that Old Norse mythology provided a model for what one might call "virtuous paganism," which was heathen; conscious of its own inadequacy, and so ripe for conversion; but not yet sunk into despair and disillusionment like so much of 20th century post-Christian literature; a mythology which was in its way light-hearted.
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    Structural anthropology

    Because of its strong focus on vertical social relations, Levi-Strauss' model of kinship systems came to be called alliance theory. ... Rethinking Anthropology.

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