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2. Psychological anthropology - Wikipedia

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   Psychological anthropology is an interdisciplinary subfield of anthropology that studies the interaction of cultural and mental processes.This subfield tends 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 ...

3. Erika Bourguignon - Wikipedia

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   The presentations and discussions centered around Bourguignon's major research interests and contributions: psychological and psychiatric anthropology, the relationship of religious trance to gender roles and social change, religious studies, women's studies, African-American performance studies, holocaust studies and the study of memory in ...

4. Cora Du Bois - Wikipedia

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   Cora Alice Du Bois (October 26, 1903 – April 7, 1991) [1] was an American cultural anthropologist and a key figure in culture and personality studies and in psychological anthropology more generally.

5. Evolutionary psychology and culture - Wikipedia

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   In contrast to genetic programs, cultural evolution investigates how culture itself may evolve (Mesoudi, 2009 [7]). Gene-culture coevolution studies how culture and genetic evolution influence each other, ultimately shaping behavior, as well. Cultural evolution and evolutionary psychology may not be as disparate as one may think, though.

6. American Anthropological Association - Wikipedia

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   The American Anthropological Association (AAA) is an organization of scholars and practitioners in the field of anthropology.With 10,000 members, the association, based in Arlington, Virginia, includes archaeologists, cultural anthropologists, biological (or physical) anthropologists, linguistic anthropologists, linguists, medical anthropologists and applied anthropologists in universities and ...

7. Person-centered ethnography - Wikipedia

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   Person-centered ethnography is an approach within psychological anthropology that draws on techniques and theories from psychiatry and psychoanalysis to understand how individuals relate to and interact with their sociocultural context.