
ANTHROPOLOGY (New Persian mardomšenāsī), social and cultural, in Iran and Afghanistan. Anthropology as an Iranological discipline evolved from a Weste interest in non-Weste and especially non-literate societies; over the past fifty years it has developed a holistic and relativistic approach to the ethnographic description of life in small, largely face-to-face communities, and to the analysis and explanation of variation in human experience generally. Iranians who have tued to anthropology more recently, primarily as a framework for the study of life in their own country, have tended to treat it as a branch of sociology and apply it only to the study of tribes and of rural material culture. ...
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