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American " cultural anthropologists " focused on the ways people expressed their view of themselves and their world, especially in symbolic forms, such as art and myths.

These two approaches frequently converged and generally complemented one another.

For example, kinship and leadership function both as symbolic systems and as social institutions.

Today almost all socio-cultural anthropologists refer to the work of both sets of predecessors, and have an equal interest in what people do and in what people say.