Anthropologists, housewives, historians and such by profession, they approach their discipline as amateurs, collectors, commercial propagandists, analysts or some combination of the four.

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

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 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 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 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.

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 such as Claude Lévi-Strauss show that there were complex forms of courtship in ancient as well as contemporary primitive societies.

Anthropologists record tribal displacement of native settlers who drive another tribe from the lands it held, such as the settlement of lands in the area now called Carmel-by-the-Sea, California where Ohlone peoples settled in areas previously inhabited by the Esselen tribe ( Bainbridge, 1977 ).

Anthropologists have noted many such systems, from those of tribesmen engaged in common subsistence economies of various sorts to complex civilizations, such as the Incas, which assigned segments of the economy to specific villages.

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.

Margaret Archer ( 2004 ) in a revised edition of her classic work Culture and Agency, argues that the grand idea of a unified integrated culture system, as advocated by early Anthropologists such as Bronisław Malinowski and later by Mary Douglas, is a myth.

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

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 also suggest that some megafauna, like Eurasia's Elasmotherium, Australia's Diprotodon, and the woolly mammoth, may have historically endured in legends of mythical beasts.

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

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

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

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 were taken in by the " Piltdown Man " discovery that was widely believed from 1913 to 1953.

During his lifetime, he was known as the " Dean of American Anthropologists ".

The finds were so sensational when they were made in the late 19th century, that the International Congress of Archeologists and Anthropologists was held in Sarajevo the following year.

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.

That same year, Graeber was asked to present the keynote address in the 100th anniversary Diamond Jubilee meetings of the Association of Social Anthropologists.

Despite a biological bias that would nowadays be considered sexist by many (" Anthropologists ... regard women as intermediate between the child and the man "), the book was progressive for its time, speculating, for example, that women's intellect might actually be superior to men's " due to their superior cunning " and " superior endurance ".

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

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.

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.

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

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

Anthropologists and non-anthropologists conducted much of this work in the spirit of salvage ethnography or attempts to record for posterity the ways-of-life of societies assumed doomed to extinction ( see, for instance, the Native American photography of Edward Curtis )