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After a protracted war, the Treaty of the Pyrenees ( 1659 ) secured Roussillon and part of the Cerdanya ( Cerdagne ) to the French crown, creating the French province of Roussillon.
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After the war, enough British and American anthropologists borrowed ideas and methodological approaches from one another that some began to speak of them collectively as ' sociocultural ' anthropology.
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