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Cultural anthropologists
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Cultural anthropology.
Ethnography
American "cultural anthropologists" focused on the ways people expressed their view of themselves and their world, especially in symbolic forms, such as art and myths. These two approaches frequently converged and generally complemented one another. For example, kinship and leadership function both as symbolic systems and as social institutions. Today, almost all sociocultural anthropologists refer to the work of both sets of predecessors and have an equal interest in what people do and say.