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Anthropology (/ˌænθɹəˈpɒlədʒi/, from Greek ἄνθρωπος, anthrōpos, "human"; -λογία, -logia) is the study of humanity. Anthropology has origins in the natural sciences, and the humanities. Ethnography is both one of its primary methods and the text that is written as a result of the practice of anthropology and its elements. Since the work of Franz Boas and Bronisław Malinowski in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, anthropology has been distinguished from other social science disciplines by... full article at wikipedia

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If Each Comes Halfway: Meeting Tamang Women in Nepal	Kathryn S March
Culture and Customs of Afghanistan	Hafizullah Emadi
Beyond Bodies: Rainmaking and Sense Making in Tanzania	Todd Sanders
In Sierra Leone	Michael Jackson
Memories of the Slave Trade: Ritual and the Historical Imagination in Sierra Leone	Rosalind Shaw
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Claude Lévi-Strauss	20th-century philosophy
Ernest Gellner	20th-century philosophy
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