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Anthropology is a field of study that seeks to view other systems from ground level.

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Oriental history is history treated as something that arrives like a ship from the outside.

Political economy is the study of the effect of capitalist penetration in specific communities or microregions.

Practice is concerned with how practice reproduces the system and how the system may be changed by practice.

Practice is not a theory or methodology, but a symbol.

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Symbolic anthropology is a concern with the fact that people have symbols, symbols have meaning, and those meaningful symbols shape the ways social actors see, feel, think, about the world.