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Anthropological theories of value – theories that attempt to expand on the traditional theories of value used by economists or ethicists; Cyborg anthropology – studies the interaction between humanity and technology from an anthropological perspective; Museum anthropology – domain that cross-cuts anthropology's sub-fields
Cultural anthropology is a branch of anthropology focused on the study of cultural variation among humans. It is in contrast to social anthropology, which perceives cultural variation as a subset of a posited anthropological constant.
American Museum of Natural History Division of Anthropology, New York, USA 119,000 objects [18] Anima Mundi, Vatican City 80,000 objects [19] Horniman Museum, London, UK 80,000 objects [20] Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada 36,000 ethnographic objects and 535,000 archaeological objects [21]
Philosophical anthropology, sometimes called anthropological philosophy, [1] [2] is a discipline within philosophy that inquires into the essence of human nature. [3] It deals with questions of metaphysics and phenomenology of the human person.
In cosmology, the anthropic principle, also known as the observation selection effect, is the proposition that the range of possible observations that could be made about the universe is limited by the fact that observations are only possible in the type of universe that is capable of developing observers in the first place.
The question bears on philosophical, psychological, linguistic and anthropological questions. [ clarification needed ] A major question is whether human psychological faculties are mostly innate or whether they are mostly a result of learning, and hence subject to cultural and social processes such as language.
Critical ethnography stems from both anthropology and the Chicago school of sociology. [4] Following the movements for civil rights of the 1960s and 1970s some ethnographers became more politically active and experimented in various ways to incorporate emancipatory political projects into their research. [5]
Ethnoecology is a field of environmental anthropology, and has derived much of its characteristics from classic as well as more modern theorists. Franz Boas was one of the first anthropologists to question unilineal evolution, the belief that all societies follow the same, unavoidable path towards Western civilization.