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Medical and psychological anthropology
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Major theorists Gregory Bateson Maurice Bloch Charles L. Briggs Veena Das George Devereux Cora Du Bois Paul Farmer Michael M. J. Fischer Arthur Kleinman Charles Laughlin E. Thomas Lawson Robert I. Levy Ralph Linton Tanya Luhrmann Marvin Opler Michelle Rosaldo Nancy Scheper-Hughes Richard Shweder Merrill Singer Dan Sperber Melford Spiro Beatrice Whiting John Whiting
Journals Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry Ethos Medical Anthropology Quarterly Transcultural Psychiatry Journal of Cognition and Culture Anthropology of Consciousness
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National character studies is a set of anthropological studies conducted during and immediately after World War II. This involves the identification of people, ethnicity, and races according to specific, indomitable cultural characteristics.