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   Anthropology

   Archaeology studies the contemporary distribution and form of artifacts (materials modified by past human activities), with the intent of understanding distribution and movement of ancient populations, development of human social organization, and relationships among contemporary populations; it also contributes significantly to the work of population geneticists, historical linguists, and many historians. ... Anthropology
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   History of anthropology

   Biruni developed a sophisticated methodology for his anthropological studies. ... Anthropology thus transcends the divisions between the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities to explore the biological, linguistic, material, and symbolic dimensions of humankind in all forms.
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   Biological anthropology

   Biological anthropology, or physical anthropology is a branch of anthropology that studies the mechanisms of biological evolution, genetic inheritance, human adaptability and variation, primatology, primate morphology, and the fossil record of human evolution.
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   Franz Boas

   Boas wished to conduct research concerning Gauss's law of the normal distribution of errors, but Karsten instructed him to research the optical properties of water instead. ... Physical anthropology
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   Consilience

   Sociology, economics, and anthropology are each, in turn, studies of properties emergent from the interaction of countless individual humans.
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   Psychological anthropology

   Psychological anthropology is a highly interdisciplinary subfield of anthropology that studies the interaction of cultural and mental processes. ... This entails certain properties of cultural models, and may explain both part of the observed inertia of cultural models (people's assumptions about the way the world works are hard to change) and patterns of association.
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   Heide Göttner-Abendroth

   Matriarchal Studies ... Mainstream anthropology considers "male dominance in the public or political realm" a human cultural universal and has abandoned the 19th century notion of "primitive" matriarchies in favour of discusison of matrilineality and matrilocality, forms of societies that are actually on record.
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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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    Cultural anthropology

    | Community studies Dual inheritance theory Ernest Gellner Human behavioral ecology Hunter-gatherers | Intangible Cultural Heritage Neuroanthropology Nomads Sociology Symbolic anthropology |

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• Anthropology,
• History of anthropology,
• Biological anthropology,
• Franz Boas,
• Consilience,
• Psychological anthropology,
• Heide Göttner-Abendroth,
• Social anthropology,
• Medical anthropology,
• Cultural anthropology