Americanist ethnology

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academic discipline area studies field subfield of anthropology

Americanist ethnology is a branch of anthropology focused on the cultures, languages, histories, and social structures of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas.

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Label	Occurrences
Americanist anthropology	1
Americanist ethnology canonical	1

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	academic discipline ⓘ area studies field ⓘ subfield of anthropology ⓘ
aimsTo	analyze social organization of Indigenous groups in the Americas ⓘ document cultural diversity in the Americas ⓘ reconstruct precolonial histories of Indigenous peoples of the Americas ⓘ understand cultural change under colonialism in the Americas ⓘ
concerns	economic systems of Indigenous societies in the Americas ⓘ kinship systems of Indigenous peoples of the Americas ⓘ material culture of Indigenous peoples of the Americas ⓘ mythology and oral traditions of Indigenous peoples of the Americas ⓘ political organization of Indigenous societies in the Americas ⓘ religious practices of Indigenous peoples of the Americas ⓘ
developedWithin	European anthropology ⓘ North American anthropology ⓘ
fieldOfStudy	Indigenous peoples of the Americas NERFINISHED ⓘ
focusesOn	cultures of Indigenous peoples of the Americas ⓘ histories of Indigenous peoples of the Americas ⓘ languages of Indigenous peoples of the Americas ⓘ social structures of Indigenous peoples of the Americas ⓘ
geographicScope	Central America NERFINISHED ⓘ North America NERFINISHED ⓘ South America NERFINISHED ⓘ
historicallyAssociatedWith	museum-based anthropology ⓘ salvage ethnography ⓘ
oftenInvolves	archival research on historical sources about Indigenous peoples of the Americas ⓘ collaboration with Indigenous communities ⓘ documentation of endangered Indigenous languages of the Americas ⓘ
partOf	cultural anthropology ⓘ
relatedTo	American Indian studies NERFINISHED ⓘ Americanist linguistics ⓘ archaeology of the Americas ⓘ ethnohistory ⓘ linguistic anthropology ⓘ
studies	First Nations cultures NERFINISHED ⓘ Indigenous Arctic and Subarctic peoples of the Americas ⓘ Indigenous Mesoamerican cultures ⓘ Indigenous South American cultures ⓘ Native American cultures NERFINISHED ⓘ colonial and postcolonial transformations in Indigenous societies of the Americas ⓘ contact between Indigenous and non-Indigenous populations in the Americas ⓘ
theoreticalOrientation	cultural relativism ⓘ historical particularism ⓘ structural analysis of myth and kinship ⓘ
usesMethod	comparative ethnology ⓘ ethnographic fieldwork ⓘ historical reconstruction ⓘ linguistic documentation ⓘ participant observation ⓘ

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Die Culturländer des alten Amerika → fieldOfStudy → Americanist ethnology ⓘ

Michel Perrin → fieldOfWork → Americanist ethnology ⓘ

this entity surface form: Americanist anthropology