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   Anthropology

   Famous ethnographies include The Nuer, by Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard, and The Dynamics of Clanship Among the Tallensi, by Meyer Fortes; well-known edited volumes include African Systems of Kinship and Marriage and African Political Systems. ... Ethnographies—intensive case studies based on field research—have historically had a central place in the literature of sociocultural and linguistic anthropology, but are increasingly supplemented by mixed-methods approaches.
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   Property

   Anthropology studies the diverse systems of ownership, rights of use and transfer, and possession under the term "theories of property".
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   Political economy

   Anthropology studies political economy by studying the relationship between the world capitalist system and local cultures. ... Electoral systems
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   Medical anthropology

   Under this concept, medical systems would be seen as the specific product of each ethnic group’s cultural history. ... The agenda of medical anthropology
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   List of academic disciplines

   Anthropology ... | Accounting scholarship Arts administration Business administration Business ethics Entrepreneurship Finance Hospitality management (or hotel management) | Industrial and labor relations Collective bargaining Human resources Organizational studies Labor economics Labor history | Information systems Management Marketing Manufacturing Port management Real estate Risk management and insurance Systems science |
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   Organizational studies

   Studies of different compensation systems were carried out. ... Qualitative methods of study became more acceptable, informed by anthropology, psychology and sociology.
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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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   Social anthropology

   Social anthropology is the branch of anthropology that studies how currently living human beings behave in social groups. ... Edmund Leach (1954) Political systems of Highland Burma.
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   Historical ecology

   Systems theory treated communities as static populations in harmonious equilibrium with the local environment. ... The study of infectious disease requires a holistic approach, using knowledge from the fields of history, biology, geography, population dynamics and anthropology.
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    Cultural anthropology

    Through this methodology greater insight can be gained when examining the impact of world-systems on local and global communities. ... | Community studies Dual inheritance theory Ernest Gellner Human behavioral ecology Hunter-gatherers | Intangible Cultural Heritage Neuroanthropology Nomads Sociology Symbolic anthropology |

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• List of academic disciplines,
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• Historical ecology,
• Cultural anthropology