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   Anthropology

   His comparative studies, most influentially in the numerous editions of The Golden Bough, analyzed similarities in religious belief and symbolism worldwide. ... It is the branch of anthropology that brings linguistic methods to bear on anthropological problems, linking the analysis of linguistic forms and processes to the interpretation of sociocultural processes.
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   Alfred Radcliffe-Brown

   For example, he saw institutions as the key to maintaining the global social order of a society, analogous to the organs of a body, and his studies of social function examine how customs aid in maintaining the overall stability of a society. ... This was because psychology was to be the study of individual mental processes, while social anthropology was to study processes of interaction between people (social relations).
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   Franz Boas

   This formulation echoes Ratzel's focus on historical processes of human migration and culture contact, and Bastian's rejection of environmental determinism. ... Physical anthropology
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   Medical anthropology

   Currently, research in medical anthropology is one of the main growth areas in the field of anthropology as a whole and we are even seeing important processes of internal specialization. ... Samson C. (1999) Health Studies.
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   Cultural anthropology

   Since humans acquire culture through the learning processes of enculturation and socialization, people living in different places or different circumstances develop different cultures. ... | Community studies Dual inheritance theory Ernest Gellner Human behavioral ecology Hunter-gatherers | Intangible Cultural Heritage Neuroanthropology Nomads Sociology Symbolic anthropology |
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   Psychological anthropology

   Psychological anthropology is a highly interdisciplinary subfield of anthropology that studies the interaction of cultural and mental processes.
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   Social sciences

   He wrote detailed comparative studies on the anthropology of peoples, religions and cultures in the Middle East, Mediterranean and South Asia. ... Psychology is an academic and applied field involving the study of behavior and mental processes.
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   Social anthropology

   Social anthropology is the branch of anthropology that studies how currently living human beings behave in social groups. ... Practitioners have developed an awareness of the sense in which scholars create their objects of study and the ways in which anthropologists themselves may contribute to processes of change in the societies they study.
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   History of anthropology

   These are the conditions of life with which people today must contend, but they have their origins in processes that began in the 16th century and accelerated in the 19th century. ... He wrote detailed comparative studies on the anthropology of religions and cultures in the Middle East, Mediterranean and especially South Asia.
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    Linguistic anthropology

    Linguistic anthropology is that branch of anthropology that brings linguistic methods to bear on anthropological problems, linking the analysis of semiotic and particularly linguistic forms and processes to the interpretation of sociocultural processes. ... Studies in the social and cultural foundations of language (No. 11).

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