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  • Thumbnail for Anthropology
    Anthropology is the scientific study of humanity, concerned with human behavior, human biology, cultures, societies, and linguistics, in both the present...
    105 KB (11,665 words) - 04:05, 3 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Anthropology in Action
    Anthropology in Action is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by Berghahn Books that covers anthropological subjects through commentaries, key articles...
    2 KB (85 words) - 22:57, 25 April 2023
  • initiation of direct action, and/or the formulation of policy". In other words, applied anthropology is the praxis-based side of anthropological research; it...
    12 KB (1,381 words) - 21:15, 18 August 2024
  • Sol Tax (category Presidents of the American Anthropological Association)
    is best known for creating action anthropology and his studies of the Meskwaki, or Fox, Indians, for "action-anthropological" research titled the Fox Project...
    15 KB (1,439 words) - 03:37, 15 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Cultural anthropology
    Cultural anthropology is a branch of anthropology focused on the study of cultural variation among humans. It is in contrast to social anthropology, which...
    71 KB (8,283 words) - 22:36, 3 July 2024
  • Symbolic anthropology or, more broadly, symbolic and interpretive anthropology, is the study of cultural symbols and how those symbols can be used to...
    8 KB (1,035 words) - 07:38, 7 May 2024
  • Evolutionary anthropology, the interdisciplinary study of the evolution of human physiology and human behaviour and of the relation between hominids and...
    3 KB (368 words) - 18:04, 12 February 2024
  • History of anthropology in this article refers primarily to the 18th- and 19th-century precursors of modern anthropology. The term anthropology itself, innovated...
    99 KB (12,392 words) - 03:40, 25 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Collective action
    political science, sociology, communication, anthropology and environmentalism. The term collective action problem describes the situation in which multiple...
    33 KB (3,836 words) - 00:37, 16 July 2024
  • most highly developed areas of anthropology and applied anthropology, and is a subfield of social and cultural anthropology that examines the ways in which...
    25 KB (3,089 words) - 08:07, 9 October 2024
  • Economic anthropology is a field that attempts to explain human economic behavior in its widest historic, geographic and cultural scope. It is an amalgamation...
    54 KB (6,632 words) - 07:44, 5 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for American Indian Chicago Conference
    event, University of Chicago anthropologist Sol Tax, the founder of "action anthropology," described the purpose of the event as helping "all Indians of the...
    4 KB (438 words) - 04:19, 26 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Forensic anthropology
    Forensic anthropology is the application of the anatomical science of anthropology and its various subfields, including forensic archaeology and forensic...
    65 KB (6,581 words) - 09:18, 11 November 2024
  • Applied anthropology research methods are: policy research, evaluation research, cultural intervention, activist (action) research, participatory action research...
    10 KB (1,104 words) - 09:57, 6 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Anthropology of art
    Anthropology of art is a sub-field in social anthropology dedicated to the study of art in different cultural contexts. The anthropology of art focuses...
    8 KB (1,108 words) - 11:49, 29 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for American Anthropological Association
    The American Anthropological Association (AAA) is an organization of scholars and practitioners in the field of anthropology. With 10,000 members, the...
    32 KB (3,604 words) - 15:00, 31 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Philosophical anthropology
    Philosophical anthropology, sometimes called anthropological philosophy, is a discipline dealing with questions of metaphysics and phenomenology of the...
    31 KB (3,643 words) - 16:03, 14 November 2024
  • In sociology and anthropology, an action group or task group is a group of people joined temporarily to accomplish some task or take part in some organized...
    5 KB (454 words) - 00:56, 1 August 2022
  • Thumbnail for American anthropology
    American anthropology has culture as its central and unifying concept. This most commonly refers to the universal human capacity to classify and encode...
    101 KB (14,261 words) - 07:25, 11 March 2024
  • international aid as primary objects. In this branch of anthropology, the term development refers to the social action made by different agents (e.g. institutions...
    12 KB (1,718 words) - 17:49, 28 January 2022
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