The anthropology of development is a term applied to a body of anthropological work which views development from a critical perspective. The kind of issues...
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Development anthropology refers to the application of anthropological perspectives to the multidisciplinary branch of development studies. It takes international...
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Anthropology is the scientific study of humanity, concerned with human behavior, human biology, cultures, societies, and linguistics, in both the present...
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Political anthropology is the comparative study of politics in a broad range of historical, social, and cultural settings. Political anthropology has its...
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paper "The Aims of Anthropology". John Van Willengen defined applied anthropology as "anthropology put to use". Applied anthropology includes conducting...
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elaborate than they were during the development of anthropology. For a presentation of modern social and cultural anthropology as they have developed in Britain...
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Arturo Escobar (anthropologist) (category Development specialists)
of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA. His academic research interests include political ecology, anthropology of development...
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outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to anthropology: Anthropology – study of humankind. Anthropology has origins in the natural sciences...
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Cultural anthropology is a branch of anthropology focused on the study of cultural variation among humans. It is in contrast to social anthropology, which...
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Social anthropology is the study of patterns of behaviour in human societies and cultures. It is the dominant constituent of anthropology throughout the...
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It is one of the most highly developed areas of anthropology and applied anthropology, and is a subfield of social and cultural anthropology that examines...
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cultural anthropology, reciprocity refers to the non-market exchange of goods or labour ranging from direct barter (immediate exchange) to forms of gift exchange...
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Biological anthropology, also known as physical anthropology, is a natural science discipline concerned with the biological and behavioral aspects of human...
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This bibliography of anthropology lists some notable publications in the field of anthropology, including its various subfields. It is not comprehensive...
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amalgamation of economics and anthropology. It is practiced by anthropologists and has a complex relationship with the discipline of economics, of which it...
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Sedentism (redirect from Forced settlement of nomads)
In anthropology, sedentism (sometimes called sedentariness; compare sedentarism) is the practice of living in one place for a long time. As of 2025...
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Mona Bhan (category Year of birth missing (living people))
and Militarism, Anthropology of Development, Ethnography of Gender in South Asia, Cosmopolitanism, and Environmental Anthropology. Some of her publications...
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Edward Burnett Tylor (category Fellows of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland)
stages of development: from savagery, through barbarism to civilization. Tylor is a founding figure of the science of social anthropology, and his scholarly...
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Nomad (category Cultural anthropology)
of Anthropology, Michigan State University. p. 34. OCLC 1084037447. Hill, Allan G.; Randall, Sara (2012). "Issues in the Study of the Demography of Sahelian...
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working on development research. Development issues include: Adult education Area studies Anthropology Community development Demography Development aid Development...
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cultural anthropology and sociology, redistribution refers to a system of economic exchange involving the centralized collection of goods from members of a group...
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Ecological anthropology is a sub-field of anthropology and is defined as the "study of cultural adaptations to environments". The sub-field is also defined...
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Pastoralism (redirect from Pastoralists herders of mongolia)
"Pastoralism: Governance & Development Issues". Annual Review of Anthropology, 26: 235–261. Hardin, G. (1968). “The Tragedy of the Commons". Science, 162(3859)...
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Potlatch (category History of British Columbia)
Anthropos: International Review of Anthropology and Linguistics. 84: 405–422. Godelier, Maurice (1996). The Enigma of the Gift. Cambridge, UK: Polity...
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French Marxist anthropology,[clarification needed] postmodernism and similar trends in sociocultural anthropology. Parallel developments soon followed...
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Marshall Sahlins (category Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences)
contributions to anthropological theory. He was the Charles F. Grey Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and of Social Sciences at...
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Anthropology of media (also anthropology of mass media, media anthropology) is an area of study within social or cultural anthropology that emphasizes...
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as a subfield of anthropology. The formal development of the sub-discipline is often attributed to anthropologist Franz Boas and some of his students,...
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academic disciplines should be classified (e.g., whether anthropology and linguistics are disciplines of social sciences or fields within the humanities). More...
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particularly anthropology, the term is used interchangeably with commodification to describe the process of making commodities out of anything that was...
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