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Political economy in anthropology is the application of the theories and methods of historical materialism to the traditional concerns of anthropology, including, but not limited to, non-capitalist societies. Political economy introduced questions of history and colonialism to ahistorical anthropological theories of social structure and culture.
Claude Lévi-Strauss (/ klɔːd ˈleɪvi ˈstraʊs / klawd LAY-vee STROWSS; [2] French: [klod levi stʁos]; 28 November 1908 – 30 October 2009) [3][4][5] was a French anthropologist and ethnologist whose work was key in the development of the theories of structuralism and structural anthropology. [6]
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 ...
Linguistic anthropology is the interdisciplinary study of how language influences social life. It is a branch of anthropology that originated from the endeavor to document endangered languages and has grown over the past century to encompass most aspects of language structure and use. [1]
Marvin Harris, a historian of anthropology, begins The Rise of Anthropological Theory with the statement that anthropology is "the science of history". [10] He is not suggesting that history be renamed to anthropology, or that there is no distinction between history and prehistory, or that anthropology excludes current social practices, as the general meaning of history, which it has in ...
v. t. e. Clifford James Geertz (/ ɡɜːrts / ⓘ; August 23, 1926 – October 30, 2006) was an American anthropologist who is remembered mostly for his strong support for and influence on the practice of symbolic anthropology and who was considered "for three decades... the single most influential cultural anthropologist in the United States." [2]
Cognitive anthropology is an approach within cultural anthropology and biological anthropology in which scholars seek to explain patterns of shared knowledge, cultural innovation, and transmission over time and space using the methods and theories of the cognitive sciences (especially experimental psychology and cognitive psychology) often through close collaboration with historians ...
Franz Uri Boas[ a ] (July 9, 1858 – December 21, 1942) was a German-American anthropologist and ethnomusicologist. [ 22 ] He was a pioneer of modern anthropology who has been called the "Father of American Anthropology". [ 23 ][ 24 ][ 25 ] His work is associated with the movements known as historical particularism and cultural relativism. [ 26 ]