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cultuuranthropologie

Cultuuranthropologie is the comparative study of human cultures, focusing on how people make sense of their world, organize social life, and express meaning through beliefs, practices, rituals, institutions, and material culture. The field seeks to understand cultural variation and the processes by which cultures adapt, resist, or transform in response to internal dynamics and external contact, including globalization, migration, and technological change.

Researchers conduct ethnography and long-term fieldwork, using participant observation, interviews, and analysis of texts, artifacts, and

Historically, cultuuranthropologie emerged from late 19th- and early 20th-century anthropology, evolving from armchair studies to immersive

In practice, cultuuranthropologie informs debates on globalization, cultural heritage, development, and intercultural communication. It intersects with

media.
The
discipline
emphasizes
thick
description
and
contextual
analysis,
often
combining
qualitative
methods
with
comparative,
cross-cultural
perspectives.
fieldwork.
Theoretical
strands
include
descriptive
and
functionalist
approaches,
interpretive
and
symbolic
anthropology,
and
structural
and
materialist
theories
about
how
culture
structures
thought
and
behavior.
Key
themes
include
kinship
and
family,
religion,
politics
and
regimes
of
power,
economy
and
exchange,
gender
and
sexuality,
ritual
and
performance,
identity
and
ethnicity,
and
the
role
of
power,
colonial
history,
and
representation
in
knowledge
production.
sociology,
linguistics,
archaeology,
and
religious
studies,
and
today
often
emphasizes
reflexivity,
ethics,
decolonization
of
methods,
and
collaboration
with
communities,
including
issues
of
consent
and
repatriation
of
artifacts.