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Structuralism also influenced a number of developments in 1960s and 1970s, including cognitive anthropology and componential analysis.

Authors such as David Schneider, Clifford Geertz, and Marshall Sahlins developed a more fleshed-out concept of culture as a web of meaning or signification, which proved very popular within and beyond the discipline.

In keeping with the times, much of anthropology became politicized through the Algerian War of Independence and opposition to the Vietnam War ; Marxism became an increasingly popular theoretical approach in the discipline.

By the 1970s the authors of volumes such as Reinventing Anthropology worried about anthropology's relevance.