These Michigan graduates include the discoverer of several new australopithecine species, the first paleoanthropologist to debunk the hominid status of Ramapithecus, the leaders in the study of late Pleistocene European evolution, three past or present chairs ( or heads ) of anthropology departments, and the past president of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, and the editor of the American Journal of Physical Anthropology.

* 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 Kruckman and Stern tested the idea cross culturally, and their pioneering study determined six ways in which postpartum rituals, including the use of the postpartum ritual, la cuarentena, in Chicago Latina mothers, to protect or cushion the expression of mood disorders.

Anthropologists, for example, have very recently started to study the effects of kinship, belonging, culture, nation, and even genes and the roles they play in the upbringing of foreign adoptees.

Anthropologists used such masks to study physiognomic features in famous persons and notorious criminals.

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

Anthropologists use a variety of methods, including participant observation, interviews and surveys.

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 in the 1980s were divided regarding some details of reproductive barriers and migratory dispersals of the Homo genus.

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

Anthropologists believe that the use of tools was an important step in the evolution of mankind.

The single largest organization of Anthropologists is the American Anthropological Association ( AAA ), which was founded in 1903.

In 1989, a group of European and American scholars in the field of anthropology established the European Association of Social Anthropologists ( EASA ) which serves as a major professional organization for anthropologists working in Europe.

The nomenclature of the field is not exact: the relevant subdivision of the American Anthropological Association is the Biological Anthropology Section while the principal professional organization is the American Association of Physical Anthropologists.

Anthropologists debate about Cheyenne society organization.

In 1989, a group of European and American scholars in the field of anthropology established the European Association of Social Anthropologists ( EASA ) which serves as a major professional organization for anthropologists working in Europe.

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

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 such as Franz Boas and Bronislaw Malinowski argued that any human science had to transcend the ethnocentrism of the scientist.

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

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 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.

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.

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

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

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.