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Language: English Studies in English

Subject area: social

Kind of studies: full-time studies

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Anthropology

Anthropology is the study of humans and human behaviour and societies in the past and present. Social anthropology and cultural anthropology study the norms and values of societies. Linguistic anthropology studies how language affects social life. Biological or physical anthropology studies the biological development of humans.

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The last bastions of resistance to evolutionary theory are organized religion and cultural anthropology.

Napoleon Chagnon cited in: "How Napoleon Chagnon Became Our Most Controversial Anthropologist" by Emily Eakin, The New York Times. February 13, 2013

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Cultural anthropology is not valuable because it uncovers the archaic in the psychological sense. It is valuable because it is constantly rediscovering the normal.

Edward Sapir Cultural Anthropology and Psychiatry (1932), p. 515

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Anthropology is never an exact science; the observer never experiences the same culture as the participant.

Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the Dead, (1986)

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