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

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

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 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 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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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 ).

Anthropologists are convinced the system originated from digit counting, as did bases five and ten, twenty being the number of human fingers and toes combined

The Association of Social Anthropologists discourages this use, asserting :" To describe any living group as ' primitive ' or ' Stone Age ' inevitably implies that they are living representatives of some earlier stage of human development that the majority of humankind has left behind.

Anthropologists eagerly sought Chumash baskets as prime examples of the craft, and two of the finest collections are at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC and the Musée de l ' Homme ( Museum of Mankind ) in Paris, France.

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 claim that many of the Dongba rituals show strong influences from the Bön religion, and are not native in origin.

Anthropologists generally recognize four kinds of political systems, two of which are uncentralized and two of which are centralized.

There are four main heading Anthropologists categorize rules of descent.

Anthropologists tend to believe humans are neither completely monogamous nor completely polygamous.

Anthropologists believe the use of masks and sandpainting are examples of cultural diffusion from neighboring Pueblo cultures.

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.

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.