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Archaeology, Anthropology, and Interstellar Communication is subdivided into four sections, each with several essays. "Historical Perspectives on SETI" is a historiography of NASA's SETI (search for extraterrestrial intelligence) program, which ran for much of the late twentieth century before being dissolved due to lack of funding, and its humanities and social sciences representation.
Another important application of Boas was the four field discipline of anthropology in which he proclaimed that all sub-fields together were needed to paint an accurate picture of anthropological research. [7] Other anthropologists made contributions to early modern anthropology, like Bronislaw Malinowski, Margaret Mead, and Ruth Benedict.
[2] [1] Since 2001, the journal has been published by the George Washington University Institute for Ethnographic Research. [1] The journal publishes articles, social thought and commentary essays on timely political and social issues, book reviews, and book review essays. As of 2022 the journal is edited by Roy Richard Grinker. [3]
Anthropological Literature (AL) is an online database of citations to journal articles and articles in edited volumes and symposia held by the Tozzer Library (previously the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology), the anthropology library at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Academic anthropological knowledge is the product of lengthy research, and is published in recognized peer-reviewed academic journals. As part of this peer review, theories and reports are rigorously and comparatively tested before publication. The following publications are generally recognized as the major sources of anthropological knowledge.
Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland – long-established anthropological organisation; Society for Anthropological Sciences; Society for Applied Anthropology; Society for Medical Anthropology – organization formed to promote study of anthropological aspects of health, illness, health care, and related topics
Today, physical anthropologists often collaborate more closely with biology and medicine than with cultural anthropology. [5] However, it is widely accepted that a complete four-field analysis is needed in order to accurately and fully explain an anthropological topic. The four-field approach is dependent on collaboration.
Ulf Hannerz, Anthropology's World: Life in a Twenty-First Century Discipline, 2010; Jesús Padilla Gálvez, Philosophical Anthropology. Wittgenstein's Perspective. Berlin, De Gruyter, 2010. ISBN 9783110321555 Review ; David Graeber, Debt: The First 5000 Years, 2011; Tim Ingold, Being Alive: Essays on Movement, Knowledge and Description, 2011