Cultural Anthropology

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Cultural Anthropology is the study of human cultures, their beliefs, practices, values, ideas, technologies, economies and other domains of social and cognitive organization, by participant observation within living populations of humans.

This textbook aims to provide an introduction to the history, theoretical approaches and research methods of Cultural Anthropology, along with case studies of the yields and effects of Cultural Anthropologists' research.

This Cultural Anthropology textbook is a very new one (As of Feb 4, 2008), and I would like to encourage any and all people knowledgeable of Cultural Anthropology to modify this textbook in any way they see fit, or add comments on the discussion page.

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Foundations
Modern Cultural Anthropological Perspectives
Case Studies
- The Yanomami of South America

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Famous Cultural Anthropologists

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