# Cultural Anthropology
|  | **Cultural Anthropology** is a branch of anthropology focused on the study of cultural variation among humans. It is in contrast to social anthropology, which perceives cultural variation as a subset of a posited anthropological constant. The term sociocultural anthropology includes both cultural and social anthropology traditions. |
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> **Cultural Anthropology** is a branch of anthropology focused on the study of cultural variation among humans. It is in contrast to social anthropology, which perceives cultural variation as a subset of a posited anthropological constant. The term sociocultural anthropology includes both cultural and social anthropology traditions.
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> Anthropologists have pointed out that through culture, people can adapt to their environment in non-genetic ways, so people living in different environments will often have different cultures. Much of anthropological theory has originated in an appreciation of and interest in the tension between the local (particular cultures) and the global (a universal human nature, or the web of connections between people in distinct places/circumstances).Cultural anthropology has a rich methodology, including participant observation (often called fieldwork because it requires the anthropologist spending an extended period of time at the research location), interviews, and surveys.
## Related Disciplines
- [[Social Anthropology]]
- [[Sociocultural anthropology]]
- [[Symbolic anthropology]]
[[Language, Linguistics, Literature, Lexical, Logos, Semiotics, Meaning, & Rhetoric|Lingua]]
[[Feminist anthropology]]
[[Kinship]]
[[Economic anthropology]]
[[Ecological anthropology]]
[[Anthropology of development]]
[[Cognitive anthropology]]
[[Anthropology of art]]
[[Political economy in anthropology ]]
[[Psychological anthropology]]
[[Anthropology of religion]]
## Concepts
[[Culture]]
[[Not by genes alone - how culture transformed human evolution]]
[[Civilization]]
[[Hunter-gatherer]]
[[Ethnocentrism]]
[[Cultural evolution]]
[[Cultural relativism]]
[[Anthropocentrism]]
[[Structuralism]]
[[Post-structuralism]]
[[Structural functionalism|Functionalism]]
## People
[[Claude Levi-Strauss]]
[[Franz Boas]]
[[Ruth Benedict]]
[[Margaret Mead]]
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