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   Political economy

   Anthropology studies political economy by studying the relationship between the world capitalist system and local cultures.
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   Critical medical anthropology

   Critical Medical Anthropology is a branch of medical anthropology that considers the political economy of health and the effect of social inequality on people's health. ... Critical Studies in Medicine, Science and the Body (The research group that comprises the UCB side of Joint UCB/UCSF Ph.D. in Medical Anthropology) at UC Berkeley
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   History of anthropology

   He wrote detailed comparative studies on the anthropology of religions and cultures in the Middle East, Mediterranean and especially South Asia. ... Thus, "culture" not only transcends the opposition between nature and nurture; it transcends and absorbs the peculiarly European distinction between politics, religion, kinship, and the economy as autonomous domains.
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   Cultural anthropology

   European "social anthropologists" focused on observed social behaviors and on "social structure", that is, on relationships among social roles (e.g. husband and wife, or parent and child) and social institutions (e.g. religion, economy, and politics). ... | Community studies Dual inheritance theory Ernest Gellner Human behavioral ecology Hunter-gatherers | Intangible Cultural Heritage Neuroanthropology Nomads Sociology Symbolic anthropology |
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   Social anthropology

   Social anthropology has historical roots in a number of 19th-century disciplines, including ethnology, folklore studies, and Classics, among others.
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   Medical anthropology

   Training in medical anthropology is normally acquired at master’s (M.A. or M.Sc.) and doctoral level. ... Samson C. (1999) Health Studies.
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   Social sciences

   The social sciences comprise academic disciplines concerned with the study of the social life of human groups and individuals including anthropology, communication studies, criminology, economics, geography, history, political science, psychology, and sociology. ... Economics has two broad branches: microeconomics, where the unit of analysis is the individual agent, such as a household, firm and macroeconomics, where the unit of analysis is an economy as a whole.
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   Cultural studies

   Cultural studies is an academic discipline which combines political economy, communication, sociology, social theory, literary theory, media theory, film/video studies, cultural anthropology, philosophy, museum studies and art history/criticism to study cultural phenomena in various societies.
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   Media studies

   In the last quarter century, political economy has played a major part in media studies literature. ... Anthropology of media
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    Feminist anthropology

    Male ethnographers, Rohrlich-Leavitt wrote, said Aboriginal women were seen by their societies as profane and excluded from rituals, and were unimportant within the economy. ... Anthropology

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• Cultural studies,
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• Feminist anthropology