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Psychological anthropology is an interdisciplinary subfield of anthropology that studies the interaction of cultural and mental processes.This subfield tends to focus on ways in which humans' development and enculturation within a particular cultural group—with its own history, language, practices, and conceptual categories—shape processes of human cognition, emotion, perception ...
Think of, say, intelligent design, Holocaust denial, ancient astronaut hypothesis, homoeopathy, the anti-vaccine movement, astrology, or climate change scepticism. Because there are different forms of pseudoscience, one cannot rule out the possibility that different criteria are needed to distinguish them from science.
Medical Anthropology Quarterly: published for the Society for Medical Anthropology by the American Anthropological Association; addresses topics in human health and disease from anthropological perspectives; Visual Anthropology Review: publication of the Society for Visual Anthropology, by the American Anthropological Association
Not to be confused with Evolutionary psychiatry. Evolutionary psychology is a theoretical approach in psychology that examines cognition and behavior from a modern evolutionary perspective. [ 1 ][ 2 ] It seeks to identify human psychological adaptations with regards to the ancestral problems they evolved to solve.
Cultural psychology is the study of how cultures reflect and shape their members' psychological processes. [1] It is based on the premise that the mind and culture are inseparable and mutually constitutive. The concept involves two propositions: firstly, that people are shaped by their culture, and secondly, that culture is shaped by its people.
Human ethology is the study of human behavior. Ethology as a discipline is generally thought of as a sub-category of biology, though psychological theories have been developed based on ethological ideas (e.g. sociobiology, evolutionary psychology, attachment theory, and theories about human universals such as gender differences, incest avoidance, mourning, hierarchy and pursuit of possession).
Political anthropology –. Psychological anthropology – studies the interaction of cultural and mental processes. Public anthropology –. Anthropology of religion –. Transpersonal anthropology – studies the relationship between altered states of consciousness and culture. Urban anthropology – concerned with issues of urbanization ...
Indigenous psychology. Indigenous psychology is defined by Kim and Berry as "the scientific study of human behavior or mind that is native, that is not transported from other regions, and that is designed for its people." [1] There is a strong emphasis on how one's actions are influenced by the environment surrounding them as well as the ...