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Eastern German Studies Association (425 words) |
 | The Eastern German Studies Association was an association of scholars interested in that part of Germany once known as the German Democratic Republic. |
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| Stanford University: Cultural History of the German Democratic Republic |
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Cultural anthropology - encyclopedia article about Cultural anthropology. (2508 words) |
| Cultural anthropology, also called social anthropology or socio-cultural anthropology, forms one of four commonly-recognized fields of anthropology Anthropology (from the Greek word άνθρωπος, "human") consists of the study of humankind (see genus Homo). |
| It is bounded to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the west by the Atlantic Ocean, to the south by the Mediterranean Sea, and to the east its boundary is culturally determined and unclear. |
| In the 19th century, cultural anthropology was dominated by an interest in cultural evolution; most anthropologists assumed that there was a simple distinction between “primitive” and “modern” religion and tried to provide accounts of how the former evolved into the latter. |
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