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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.
E. E. Evans-Pritchard with a group of Zande boys in Sudan.Picture taken in the period 1926–1930. Sir Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard FBA FRAI (21 September 1902 – 11 September 1973) was an English anthropologist who was instrumental in the development of social anthropology.
An anthropologist is a person engaged in the practice of anthropology. Anthropology is the study of aspects of humans within past and present societies. [1] [2] [3] Social anthropology, cultural anthropology and philosophical anthropology study the norms, values, and general behavior of societies.
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.
Anthropological Quarterly is a widely read peer-reviewed journal covering topics in social and cultural anthropology. It is housed at the George Washington University Institute for Ethnographic Research .
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
Even before the emergence of anthropology as an academic discipline in the 1880s, ethnologists used photography as a tool of research. [5] Anthropologists and non-anthropologists conducted much of this work in the spirit of salvage ethnography or attempts to record for posterity the ways-of-life of societies assumed doomed to extinction (see, for instance, the Native American photography of ...
The Anthropological Research Facility, the first body farm created, was founded by Bass to generate information about what a corpse experiences when exposed to various experimental conditions. On this farm, human corpses yield to the elements of nature in many re-enacted scenes such as a car accident unseen for days, or a murder victim buried ...