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Benedict, Ruth American anthropologist Ruth Benedict, c. 1937.

Cultural anthropology

social science
Also known as: ethnology
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Paul Mercier
Professor of Ethnology, University of Paris V. Director of Studies, Institute for Advanced Research, Paris. Author of Historie de l'anthropologie.
Paul Mercier
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Cultural anthropology, a major division of anthropology that deals with the study of culture in all of its aspects and that uses the methods, concepts, and data of archaeology, ethnography and ethnology, folklore, and linguistics in its descriptions and analyses of the diverse peoples of the world. Etymologically, anthropology is the science of humans. In fact, however, it is only one of the sciences of humans, bringing together those disciplines the common aims of which...

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