cultural anthropology. In the United States, social anthropology is commonly subsumed within cultural anthropology or sociocultural anthropology. The term...

and past, including archaic humans. Social anthropology studies patterns of behavior, while cultural anthropology studies cultural meaning, including...

Cultural anthropology is a branch of anthropology focused on the study of cultural variation among humans. It is in contrast to social anthropology, which...

they were during the development of anthropology. For a presentation of modern social and cultural anthropology as they have developed in Britain, France...

most highly developed areas of anthropology and applied anthropology, and is a subfield of social and cultural anthropology that examines the ways in which...

anthropology is a term used to refer to social anthropology and cultural anthropology together. It is one of the four main branches of anthropology....

Political anthropology is the comparative study of politics in a broad range of historical, social, and cultural settings. Political anthropology has its...

Social anthropology is the branch of anthropology that studies how contemporary living human beings behave in social groups. Practitioners of social anthropology...

Biological anthropology, also known as physical anthropology, is a social science discipline concerned with the biological and behavioral aspects of human...

psychology under W. H. R. Rivers who, with A. C. Haddon, led him toward social anthropology. Under the latter's influence, he travelled to the Andaman Islands...

Visual anthropology is a subfield of social anthropology that is concerned, in part, with the study and production of ethnographic photography, film and...

are widely-considered to be social sciences: Anthropology Archaeology Ethnography Physical anthropology Cultural anthropology Criminology Penology Geography...

The Rise of Anthropological Theory: A History of Theories of Culture. Routledge. ISBN 0-7591-0133-7. Ingold, Tim (2006) "On the social relations of the...

Linguistic anthropology is the interdisciplinary study of how language influences social life. It is a branch of anthropology that originated from the...

and southeast Asia Anthropological Theory: critical journal published by SAGE, bringing social anthropology into contact with social theory L'Homme: Revue...

human culture, symbolism and risk, whose area of speciality was social anthropology. Douglas was considered a follower of Émile Durkheim and a proponent...

fields of anthropology, such as biological anthropology, evolutionary anthropology, social anthropology, cultural anthropology, visual anthropology and medical...

FRAI (born 1958) is a British anthropologist. He is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oxford, and a supernumerary-Fellow of Wolfson...

one of the pioneering personalities in the field of sociology and social anthropology in India as his work in Rampura (later published as The Remembered...

In anthropology, a lineage is a unilineal descent group that traces its ancestry to a demonstrably shared ancestor, known as the apical ancestor. Lineages...

Norwegian social anthropologist who published several ethnographic books with a clear formalist view. He was a professor in the Department of Anthropology at...

The social environment, social context, sociocultural context or milieu refers to the immediate physical and social setting in which people live or in...

topical guide to anthropology: Anthropology – study of humankind. Anthropology has origins in the natural sciences – humanities – and the social sciences. The...

Social Anthropology (ISA) is a research institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (AAS) in Vienna, Austria. The Institute for Social Anthropology...

models of cultural and social processes. Each school within psychological anthropology has its own approach. Psychological anthropology emerged during the...

In social anthropology, a sodality is a non-kin group organized for a specific purpose (economic, cultural, or other), and frequently spanning villages...

Verso. Barnard, A.; Spencer, J., eds. (1996). Encyclopedia of Social and Cultural Anthropology. London: Routledge. Barth, F. (1969). Ethnic Groups and Boundaries...

practice of anthropology. Anthropology is the study of aspects of humans within past and present societies. Social anthropology, cultural anthropology and philosophical...

needed] The practice ended there by the 1970s.[citation needed] Within social anthropology research of Chinese marriage, shim-pua marriage is referred to as...

American and European thought. Andean anthropology's roots began during the turn of the 20th century, containing social movements between two groups in Peru...