Concept

Cultural anthropology

Overview

branch of anthropology focused on the study of cultural variation among humans

Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).

Philosophers who discussed Cultural anthropology

• Johann Gottfried Herder
• Hugo Kołłątaj
• Andrei Pleșu

Related ideas

• Belief
• Friedrich Nietzsche
• Franz Boas
• Immanuel Kant
• Indo-European languages
• Ethnography
• Inuit
• Jacques Lacan
• Marxism
• Claude Lévi-Strauss
• Western culture
• Neoclassical economics
• Bronisław Malinowski
• Linguistics
• Frankfurt School
• Uttar Pradesh
• Māori people
• Postmodernism
• Myth
• Post-structuralism
• Asante people
• Ruth Benedict
• Kinship
• Sigmund Freud

Opposing perspectives

• Sociology
• Anthropology
• Universal value

Place in the tradition

Part of Philosophy of science.

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