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But there’s a key moment in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when cultural anthropologists focus in on aspects of consciousness alteration among Native Americans.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 12, 2024

Traditional historians and the more informal cultural anthropologists will see themselves being confronted with a methodology few of them use and challenged to defend their impressionistic hypotheses against his lab-based results.

From New York Times • Sep. 12, 2020

Decades from now, when advertising gurus and cultural anthropologists may study how big this buzz got, they can pinpoint to the Emerald City and say, it was even big in Seattle!

From Seattle Times • Aug. 26, 2019

Less than a century ago, a group of American cultural anthropologists used their research about other societies to combat racism, which was centered on fears that America’s supposed racial purity was being defiled by immigration.

From Washington Post • Aug. 16, 2019

At many moments in history, states have arisen independently—or, as cultural anthropologists say, “pristinely,” that is, in the absence of any preexisting surrounding states.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond