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Article: Anthropological Perspective
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- Macmillan Encyclopedia of Death and Dying
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Anthropological Perspective
It is rather hard, if not impossible, to answer the question of how long anthropology has existed. Should social scientists consider anthropology the detailed descriptions appearing in the work of ancient and medieval historians
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which deal with the culture of certain ethnic groups, such as their death rites, eating habits, and dressing customs
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just as they consider the fieldwork reports based on long-term participating observations published in the twenty-first century? Although it is not easy to find the unambiguous answer to this question, it is obvious that no work in history of science can lack a starting point, which helps its readers pin ...
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