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• Spell
  ...a57de8ea49844639 Richard Kieckhefer] divides the category of spells into [[psychological]] [[magic]], which seeks to [[influence]] other people's [[minds]] to do th [[Category: Anthropology]]
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• Encyclopedia of Religion and Society
  ...of the insights gained by the principal [[social sciences]] of religion: [[anthropology]], [[psychology]], and [[sociology]]. To do so is to take, admittedly, a "o ...[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Psychological_Association American Psychological Association] and the American Sociological Association. This resource is in
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• Veil
  ...ended to show [[honor]] to an object or space. The actual sociocultural, [[psychological]], and sociosexual [[functions]] of veils have not been [[studied]] extensi [[Category: Anthropology]]
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• Totem
  ...[egalitarian]] [[nature]] of his work. Lévi-Strauss diverts the theme of [[anthropology]] toward the [[understanding]] of [[human]] [[cognition]]. ...ions. Firth and Fortes argued that totemism was based on [[physical]] or [[psychological]] similarities between the [[clan]] and the totemic animal. Malinowski prop
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• Influence
  Morton Deutsch and Harold Gerard described two [[psychological]] needs that lead humans to conform to the [[expectations]] of others. Thes ===Psychological manipulation===
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• Abraham Maslow
  ...the faculty of Brooklyn College. In New York he found two more mentors, [[anthropology|anthropologist]] Ruth Benedict and Gestalt psychologist Max Wertheimer, who ...food, sleep. Then came safety needs -- security, stability -- followed by psychological, or social needs -- for belonging, love, acceptance. At the top of it all w
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• Religion
  ...tudies draws upon multiple disciplines and their methodologies including [[anthropology]], [[sociology]], [[psychology]], [[philosophy]], and [[history]] of religi ...nd book ''The Varieties of Religious Experience'' examined religion from a psychological-philosophical perspective and is still influential today. His essay ''[[The
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• Transpersonal Psychology
  ...being applied to such diverse fields as [[psychology]], [[psychiatry]], [[anthropology]], [[sociology]], [[pharmacology]], cross-cultural studies (Scotton, Chinen By common consent, the following branches are considered to be transpersonal psychological schools: various [[depth psychology]] approaches including [[Analytical ps
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• Cognitive Science
  ...sychology]], artificial intelligence, neuroscience, [[linguistics]], and [[anthropology]]. Its [[intellectual]] origins are in the mid-1950s when researchers in se ...entific discussion. Especially in North America, behaviorism dominated the psychological scene through the 1950s. Around 1956, the intellectual landscape began to c
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• Identity
  Identity may be contrasted with the notion of ''self''. In psychology, a ''psychological identity'' relates to self-image (a person's mental model of him or herself ...d in identity. The Eriksonian framework rests upon a distinction among the psychological sense of continuity, known as the ''[[ego]] identity'' (sometimes identifie
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• Flow
  ...iences using the [[metaphor]] of a water current carrying them along. The psychological [[concept]] of ''flow'' as becoming absorbed in an activity is thus unrelat ...] reference is made to a state of "flow" in the practice of [[Samyama]], a psychological absorption in the object of meditation.[https://books.google.com/books?id=a
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• Narrative
  ...earliest forms of entertainment. Narrative may also refer to [[psychology|psychological]] processes in self-[[identity]], [[memory]] and [[meaning]]-making. == Psychological narrative ==
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• Anthropology
  ...imary methods, and the text that is written as a result of the practice of anthropology and its elements. ...ten known as [[Participant observation|participant-observation]]. Cultural anthropology in particular has emphasized [[Cultural relativism|cultural relativity]] an
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• Fatherhood
  ...es have a key role to play in reducing [[behavior]] problems in boys and [[psychological]] problems in young women.[6] For example, children who experience signific # Children Who Have An Active Father Figure Have Fewer Psychological And Behavioral Problems
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• Relationship
  ...science]], including such disciplines as [[sociology]], [[psychology]], [[anthropology]], and social work. ...g: Desire for interpersonal attachments as a fundamental human motivation. Psychological Bulletin, 117, 497-529.
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• Social Sciences
  ...t]], [[Mediterranean Basin|Mediterranean]] and [[South Asia]]. Al-Biruni's anthropology of religion was only possible for a scholar deeply immersed in the lore of ...m]]ic anthropology. Richard Tapper (1995). "Islamic Anthropology" and the "Anthropology of Islam", ''Anthropological Quarterly'' '''68''' (3), Anthropological Anal
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• Semiotics
  ...ragmatics deals with the biotic aspects of semiosis, that is, with all the psychological, biological, and sociological phenomena which occur in the functioning of s ...o some of the humanities (including [[literary theory]]) and to cultural [[anthropology]].
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• Community
  ===Anthropology=== ...al to anthropological research. Some of the ways community is addressed in anthropology include the following:
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• History
  ...y considering the effects of such outside disciplines as [[economics]], [[anthropology]], and [[geography]] on global history. Traditionally, historians have atte ...verstein, Unwrapping the Sacred Bundle: Reflections on the Disciplining of Anthropology, Duke University Press [https://www.dukeupress.edu/cgibin/forwardsql/search
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• 2015-04-30-New Era Conversations 45
  *Cultural Anthropology in “real time” ...e necessary things to consider as cultures change. Truly this is cultural anthropology in “real time” that you are experiencing now. And for those of you who
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