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- Wilk, Richard - Cultural anthropologist and professor at Indiana University. Biographical information and various projects, including software reviews and the Global Consumer Culture Project.
- Roufs, Tim - Research interests focus on Middle America, culture and personality, and the sociocultural change of prehistoric cultures. University of Minnesota, Duluth.
- Sandstrom, Alan - Research interests are in cultural ecology, cultural materialism, economic anthropology, religion, ritual, and symbolism. He has conducted ethnographic field research among Tibetans refugees in India and has spent over 30 years among Nahua Indians of Mexico. IPFW.
- David L. Crawford - Features links to courses in cultural anthropology and Islamic societies and cultures. Also offers publications on Berber society, Morocco, labor relations, migration and the Amazigh identity movement. Fairfield University.
- Leacock, Eleanor Burke - Eminent American cultural anthropologist recognized primarily for her enthohistorical studies of the subarctic Innu and her contributions to feminist anthropology.
- Wissler, Clark - A biographical sketch of the anthropologist associated with the Culture Area concept.
- Aunger, Robert - Biological anthropologist at the University of Cambridge with interests in human cultural evolution, memes and memetics. Features his studies of food taboos among pygmy foragers and horticulturalists in the Ituri Forest of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- Bernard, H. Russell - Cultural anthropologist at the University of Florida. Includes curriculum vitae, class materials, and a list of his academic papers available online.
- Fiona Jordan - University College London PhD student interested in cultural evolution and diversity in the Pacific, especially the Austronesian world. Uses phylogenetic comparative methods to understand and examine cultural change and adaptation.
- Gardner, Peter M. - Research interests include: ecology, social organization and cognition of foragers in Canadian subarctic and India; cultural transmission in Hindu India and among South Indian sculptors; problems in the study of cognition; and anthropological perspectives on culture theories. University of Missouri.
Wikipedia Articles
- Psychological anthropology - Psychological anthropology is a highly interdiscplinary subfield of anthropology that studies the interaction of cultural and mental processes. In particular, psychological anthropologists tend to focus on ways in which humans' development and enculturation within a particular cultural group, with its own history, language, practices, and conceptual categories, shape processes of human cognition, emotion, perception, motivation, and mental health.
- Cultural diversity - There is a general consensus among mainstream anthropologists that humans first emerged in Africa about two million years ago. Since then we have spread throughout the world, successfully adapting to widely differing conditions and to periodic cataclysmic changes in local and global climate.
- Anthropology of religion - The anthropology of religion involves the study of religious institutions in relation to other social institutions, and the comparison of religious beliefs and practices across cultures. In the 19th century, cultural anthropology was dominated by an interest in cultural evolution; most anthropologists assumed that there was a simple distinction between “primitive” and “modern” religion and tried to provide accounts of how the former evolved into the latter.
- Crow language - Crow is a Missouri Valley Siouan language spoken primarily by the Crow Nation in present-day Montana. They split from the Hidatsa tribe in present-day North Dakota either around 1400 to 1500 AD (according to cultural anthropologists) or 900 to 1000 AD (according to linguistic anthropologists).
- Biocultural anthropology - Biocultural anthropology is the scientific exploration of the relationships between human biology and culture. Physical anthropologists throughout the first half of the 20th century viewed this relationship from a racial perspective; that is, from the assumption that typological human biological differences lead to cultural differences.