Anthropologists such as C. Loring Brace and Jonathan Kaplan and geneticist Joseph Graves, have argued that while there it is certainly possible to find biological and genetic variation that corresponds roughly to the groupings normally defined as races, this is true for almost all geographically distinct populations.

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 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 Alan Walker and Richard Leakey in 1993 estimated the boy to have been about 11 – 12 years old based on known rates of bone maturity.

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 ' involvement with the U. S. government, in particular, has caused bitter controversy within the discipline.

Anthropologists, along with other social scientists, are working with the US military as part of the US Army's strategy in Afghanistan.

Anthropologists John Monoghan and Peter Just state that, " it seems apparent that one thing religion or belief helps us do is deal with problems of human life that are significant, persistent, and intolerable.

Anthropologists such as the Seligmanns ( The Veddhas 1911 ) believe the Veddhas to be identical with the " Yakkhas " of yore.

Anthropologists once classed the Inuit as members of the Mongoloid race, along with various Siberian tribes such as the Yakut, as well as the Chinese, Korean, and Japanese.

Anthropologists and historians believe that sometime before contact with the English in the 17th century, the Pequot had split into the two warring groups.

Anthropologists and historians, following the modernist understanding of ethnicity as proposed by Ernest Gellner and Benedict Anderson see nations and nationalism as developing with the rise of the modern state system in the seventeenth century.

* 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.

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 and historians contend that sometime before contact with the Puritan English, the Pequot split into the two competing groups.

Anthropologists have named various cultural regions, with fluid boundaries, that are generally agreed upon with some variation.

Anthropologists Ronald and Catherine Berndt spent time with the North Fore in 1953, while missionaries and traders penetrated further south.

He authored two papers presented at the 76th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists March 27 through April 1, 2007 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania entitled " Body Size and Shape in the Dmanisi Hominids: Implications for Early Genus Homo and Homo Floresiensis " and with Melanie L. Chang " Phylogenetic Evaluation of Adaptive Explanations for Neandertal Nasal Morphology ".

Anthropologists, historians and archeologists generally are more interested in documents that describe the day-to-day lives of ordinary people, indicating what they ate, their interaction with other members of their households and social groups, and their states of mind.

Anthropologists study topics including Homo sapiens origin and evolution, the organization of human social and cultural relations, human physical traits, how humans behave, the variations among different groups of humans, how the evolutionary past of Homo sapiens has influenced its social organization and culture, and so forth.

According to a 1996 statement from the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, although heredity influences behavior in individuals, it does not affect the ability of a population to function in any social setting, all peoples " possess equal biological ability to assimilate any human culture " and " racist political doctrines find no foundation in scientific knowledge concerning modern or past human populations.

* Anthropologists, sociologists, and geographers use political economy in referring to the regimes of politics or economic values that emerge primarily at the level of states or regional governance, but also within smaller social groups and social networks.

Anthropologists see social rituals as one of many cultural universals.

Anthropologists from Émile Durkheim through Turner and contemporary theorists like Michael Silverstein ( 2004 ) treat ritual as social action aimed at particular transformations often conceived in cosmic terms.

Anthropologists remain interested in the connections which Morgan outlined between material culture and social structure.

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 have found that social stratification is not the standard among all societies.

Anthropologists identify egalitarian cultures as " kinship-oriented ," because they appear to value social harmony more than wealth or status.

Anthropologists and archaeologists have demonstrated through research that chiefdoms are a relatively unstable form of social organization.

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

Anthropologists and sociologists often assume that human beings have natural social tendencies and that particular human social behaviours have non-genetic causes and dynamics ( i. e. they are learned in a social environment and through social interaction ).