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• Social Sciences
  ...t]], [[Mediterranean Basin|Mediterranean]] and [[South Asia]]. Al-Biruni's anthropology of religion was only possible for a scholar deeply immersed in the lore of ...m]]ic anthropology. Richard Tapper (1995). "Islamic Anthropology" and the "Anthropology of Islam", ''Anthropological Quarterly'' '''68''' (3), Anthropological Anal
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• Community
  ===Anthropology=== ...al to anthropological research. Some of the ways community is addressed in anthropology include the following:
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• Narrative
  ...personal narrative process is involved in a person's sense of personal or cultural [[identity]], and in the creation and construction of [[memory|memories]], ...e]], sometimes also known as master- or grand narrative, is a higher-level cultural narrative [[schema]] which orders and explains knowledge and experience.
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• Shelling's and Bakhtin's Process Thinking
  ..., and the reasons for relating literary theory to ethics and philosophical anthropology. Construing Schelling as an idealist or Romantic has enabled philosophers t ...to literary studies, anthropology, linguistics, psychology and social and cultural theory, this creates a tendency to see him as belonging to one of these are
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• Immanuel Wallerstein
  The capitalist world-system is, however, far from homogeneous in cultural, political, and economic terms — instead characterized by fundamental [[d ...knowledge]]' defined by the disciplinary division between [[sociology]], [[anthropology]], [[political science]], [[economics]], and [[the humanities]], and the pu
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• Family
  ...concept]] of consanguinity originally referred to relations by "blood," [[Anthropology|anthropologists]] have argued that one must understand the idea of "blood" It has been argued by many [[sociology|sociologists]], [[anthropology|anthropologists]] [[philosophers]], and [[psychoanalysts]] that the main f
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• Star Visitor Spirituality: A Synopsis
  ...from 1989-present by Dr. Richard Boylan, research behavioral scientist and cultural anthropologist with graduate training in spirituality and philosophy. This ..."superiority"? The issue of the visiting Star Visitor races' intellectual, cultural, genetic, technological and spiritual superiority, while not specifically a
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• Geography
  ...environments. It encompasses [[human]], [[politics|political]], [[culture|cultural]], [[social]], and [[economics|economic]] aspects. While the major focus of *[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_geography Cultural geography]
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• Cognitive Science
  ...sychology]], artificial intelligence, neuroscience, [[linguistics]], and [[anthropology]]. Its [[intellectual]] origins are in the mid-1950s when researchers in se ...the operations of mind in particular physical and social environments. For cultural anthropologists, the main method is [[ethnography]], which requires living
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• 2003-12-14-Art of Keeping Silence
  Just as you recall from your cultural field of [[entertainment]], “Accentuate the [[positive]], eliminate the [ ...l [[study]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_anthropology cultural anthropology], and that is my field. So I like to see how all these things affect others
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• Mortal Knowlege: The Originary Event, & The Emergence of the Sacred
  ...own limitations by blending the objective with the subjective. Generative anthropology embraces such subjectivity and tends not to avail itself of such empirical The originary thinking demanded by generative anthropology is to some degree anathema to the harder sciences that ignore the human exp
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• 2016-06-13-New Era Conversations 71
  ...everybody’s DNA; he disagrees with that statement. He says that they are cultural assumptions. I didn’t argue with him, like I was told not to do, but I w ...of thinking, that as it being innate to your DNA, that it was there before cultural civilization actually became created, that it was there before culture.
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• Philistine
  ...een debated among scholars, but modern [[archaeology]] has suggested early cultural links with the [[Mycenaean Greece|Mycenean]] world in mainland [[Greece]]. ...08. Philadelphia: The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
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• Paradigm
  ...ssay, particularly in [[sociology]], [[political science]] and political [[anthropology]]. ...at a given time. Dominant paradigms are shaped both by the [[community]]’s cultural background and by the context of the historical [[moment]]. The following a
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• Gossip
  ...n, intimate in style, personal and domestic in scope and setting, a female cultural event which springs from and perpetuates the restrictions of the female rol # See for example the popular-cultural account and discussion of the phenomenon as an Internet urban legend at htt
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• Motherhood
  ...spring.[1] Because of the complexity and differences of a mothers' social, cultural, and religious definitions and roles, it is challenging to define a mother [[Category: Anthropology]]
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• Mythology
  ...al beginnings ("creation myths", natural phenomena, otherwise inexplicable cultural conventions or [[ritual]]s, and anything else for which no simple explanati ...th mythological qualities into pragmatic contexts, for example following a cultural or religious paradigm shift (notably the re-interpretation of pagan mytholo
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• 2000-02-29-As A Sociologist
  ...pensity for me to project onto you my interest in sociology and cultural [[anthropology]]. Is it not, after all, a natural consideration that in [[Correcting Time]
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• Dance
  ...s of what constitutes dance are dependent on [[Society|social]], [[Culture|cultural]], [[aesthetic]], [[artistic]] and [[moral]] constraints and range from fun ...horeology]], encompassing the dance-related aspects of [[Anthropology]], [[Cultural Studies]], [[Gender Studies]], [[Area studies]], [[Postcolonial theory]], [
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• Humanity
  ...umanities are [[anthropology]], [[area studies]], [[communications]] and [[cultural studies]], although these are often regarded as social sciences. ...s of what constitutes dance are dependent on [[Society|social]], [[Culture|cultural]], [[aesthetic]] [[artistic]] and [[moral]] constraints and range from func
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