Anthropologists such as Richard Borshay Lee and Marshall Sahlins began publishing studies that showed tribal life as an easy, safe life, the opposite of the traditional theoretical supposition.

Coon eventually resigned from the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, while some of his other works were discounted because he would not agree with the evidence brought forward by Franz Boas, Stephen Jay Gould, Richard Lewontin, Leonard Lieberman and others.

Anthropologists, like other researchers ( especially historians and scientists engaged in field research ), have over time assisted state policies and projects, especially colonialism.

Anthropologists have argued that culture is " human nature ", and that all people have a capacity to classify experiences, encode classifications symbolically ( i. e. in language ), and teach such abstractions to others.

Anthropologists have also 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.

Anthropologists Dan Sperber, Edwin Hutchins, Scott Atran, Pascal Boyer and Joseph Henrich have been involved in collaborative projects with cognitive and social psychologists, political scientists and evolutionary biologists in attempts to develop general theories of culture formation, religion and political association.

Anthropologists believe that all Polynesians have descended from a South Pacific proto-culture created by an Austronesian ( Malayo-Polynesian ) people that had migrated from Southeast Asia.

Anthropologists have observed that taxonomies are generally embedded in local cultural and social systems, and serve various social functions.

Anthropologists, such as Sir James Frazer ( 1854 – 1938 ), have characterized the implementation of symbols into two primary categories: the " principle of similarity ", and the " principle of contagion.

Anthropologists have also argued that the social construct " incest " ( and the incest taboo ) is not the same thing as the biological phenomenon of " inbreeding.

Anthropologists have documented a great number of societies where marriages between some first cousins are prohibited as incestuous, while marriages between other first cousins are encouraged.

Anthropologists have speculated that a land bridge connected the Eurasian and North American continent during Late Pleistocene.

Anthropologists such as A. Asbjørn Jøn have recognised that the taniwha has " analogues that appear within other Polynesian cosmologies ".

Anthropologists observe that all societies tend to have roles assigned by age and gender, which supports this view.

Anthropologists ( such as Bea Medicine ) have documented important social and cultural connections between quilting and earlier important pre-reservation crafting traditions such as women's quill-working societies and other crafting traditions that were difficult to sustain after hunting and off-reservation travel was restricted by the US government.

Anthropologists like Daniel Miller and Mary Douglas have used ethnographic data to answer academic questions about consumers and consumption.

The Association has generated a code of ethics approved in February 2009 which states that Anthropologists have " moral obligations as members of other groups, such as the family, religion, and community, as well as the profession ".

Anthropologists have determined that these people were related to the people now known as the Tai.

Anthropologists have claimed that jealousy varies across cultures.

Anthropologists have considered various criteria for defining religion – such as a belief in the supernatural or the reliance on ritual – but few claim that these criteria are universally valid.

Anthropologists and archaeologists working in Peru have highlighted two known cases where quipus have continued to be used by contemporary communities, albeit as ritual items seen as " communal patrimony " rather than as devices for recording information.

Anthropologists and other researchers, along with other less-qualified individuals, have made various indignant claims of fraud.

Anthropologists Nancy Scheper-Hughes and Margaret M. Lock have developed a concept of bodymind for medical anthropology to provide a basis for research that is not limited by the view that the body and mind are distinct from one another.

During an event organized by the Network of Concerned Anthropologists, a graduate student who had recently been expelled from the HTS program spoke out about her experiences with the program.

Anthropologists use the term " nocebo ritual " to describe a procedure, treatment, or ritual that has been performed ( or a herbal remedy or medication that has been administered ) with malicious intent, by contrast with a placebo procedure or treatment or ritual that is performed with a benevolent intent.

Anthropologists debate about Cheyenne society organization.

* Application-When conducting an ethnography Anthropologists must be " open with funders, colleagues, persons studied or providing information, and relevant parties affected by the work about the purpose ( s ), potential impacts, and source ( s ) of support for the work.

Anthropologists break these down into simple concepts about what is thought to be common among many different cultures.

Anthropologists suggest that P. aethiopicus lived between 2. 7 and 2. 5 million years ago.

Anthropologists chronicle this form of street magic from approximately 3, 000 years ago-and there are records of such performers across the continents, notably Europe, Asia / South Asia and the Middle East.

Anthropologists believe that the belief is extremely old because of the widespread nature of this deity.

Anthropologists such as Tim White suggest that cannibalism was common in human societies prior to the beginning of the Upper Paleolithic, based on the large amount of “ butchered human " bones found in Neanderthal and other Lower / Middle Paleolithic sites.

Anthropologists continue to believe, based on linguistic, physical, and genetic evidence, that Polynesia was settled from west to east, migration having begun from the Asian mainland.

Anthropologists such as Tim D. White suggest that cannibalism was common in human societies prior to the beginning of the Upper Paleolithic, based on the large amount of “ butchered human " bones found in Neanderthal and other Middle Paleolithic sites.

Anthropologists believe that the Stone Age people and hunter-gatherers relied on wildlife, both plants and animals, for their food.

* Conducting Research-When conducting research Anthropologists need to be aware of the potential impacts of the research on the people and animals they study.

" Anthropologists on trial ", Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, D. C., November 1997

Anthropologists such as Paul Stoller ( 1989 ) and Michael Jackson ( 1983, 1989 ) have focused on a critique of the hegemony of vision and textuality in the social sciences.

Anthropologists, ethnologists and other authors, including William Logan, believe that the last name of a Nair was a title which denoted the subgroup ( vibhagam ) to which that person belonged and indicated the occupation the person pursued or was bestowed on them by a chief or king.

Anthropologists and historians nevertheless study Islam as an aspect of, and influence on, culture in the regions where the religion is predominant.

Anthropologists once thought that the common ancestor of chimpanzees and humans engaged in knuckle-walking, and humans evolved upright walking from knuckle-walking: a view thought to be supported by reanalysis of overlooked features on hominid fossils.

* Frank Pieke, " Serendipity: Reflections on fieldwork in China ", article in Anthropologists in a Wider World ed.

Anthropologists believe that within the context of Indo-Aryan migration, the majority of Chhetris derive from unions between Khas and indigenous groups, as the Khas progressively encroached on indigenous homelands.