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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. ... Gender and sexuality became popular topics, as did the relationship between history and anthropology, influenced by Marshall Sahlins (again), who drew on Lévi-Strauss and Fernand Braudel to examine the relationship between social structure and individual agency.
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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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   Franz Boas

   Physical anthropology ... Although Boas published descriptive studies of Native American languages, and wrote on theoretical difficulties in classifying languages, he left it to colleagues and students such as Edward Sapir to research the relationship between culture and language.
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   Medical anthropology

   The relationship between anthropology, medicine and medical practice goes back a long way and is well documented (See Comelles & Martínez, 1993). ... Samson C. (1999) Health Studies.
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   Historical ecology

   The study of infectious disease requires a holistic approach, using knowledge from the fields of history, biology, geography, population dynamics and anthropology. Studies of human disease have shown the reciprocal relationship between humans and parasites.
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   History of anthropology

   This being said, curatorial practice has changed dramatically in recent years, and it would be wrong to see anthropology as merely an extension of colonial rule and European chauvinism, since its relationship to imperialism was and is complex. ... Biruni developed a sophisticated methodology for his anthropological studies.
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   Psychological anthropology

   Psychological anthropology is a highly interdisciplinary subfield of anthropology that studies the interaction of cultural and mental processes. ... Related work in cognitive linguistics and semantics also carries forward research on the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis and looks at the relationship between language and thought (Maurice Bloch, John Lucy, Anna Wierzbicka).
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   Transpersonal anthropology

   Transpersonal anthropology is a subdiscipline of cultural anthropology. It studies the relationship between altered states of consciousness and culture.
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   Medicine

   The field of medical anthropology studies the various prehistoric medical systems and their interaction with society. ... The patient-physician relationship
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    Race (classification of human beings)

    Gene flow and intermixture also have an effect on predicting a relationship between race and "race linked disorders". ... ↑ "'Race'—Still an Issue for Physical Anthropology?

Explore the following pages on Powerset:

• Anthropology,
• Political economy,
• Franz Boas,
• Medical anthropology,
• Historical ecology,
• History of anthropology,
• Psychological anthropology,
• Transpersonal anthropology,
• Medicine,
• Race (classification of human beings)