Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Transpersonal anthropology

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The result was redirect to Cultural anthropology. Feel free to alter where the redirect points, if anyone wishes to do so. Daniel (talk) 20:03, 25 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Transpersonal anthropology[edit]

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See related transpersonal business studies. I am pretty sure that there were anthropologists who were interested in transpersonal ideas such as transpersonal psychology, but unlike that "subdiscipline", it does not appear that there was ever any coherent movement within anthropology to consistently apply the ideas of the Eslaen movement (transpersonal "studies") to anthropology more generally. All the references in this article are to works that generally look at how the ideas have influenced certain actors in anthropology, but none of them speak to the idea being a subfield or approach that is uniquely "transpersonal anthropology". As such, it is basically Wikipedia promoting a parochial view of the authors of the article -- essentially a promotion of original research. jps (talk) 14:07, 18 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Social science-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 14:31, 18 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Delete What little isn't taken from within the transpersonal bubble is synthesis; for example, Al-Issa (1885) doesn't even contain the term "transpersonal". XOR'easter (talk) 23:05, 18 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to Cultural anthropology. RPSkokie (talk) 03:56, 20 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect - the word "subset" in the lede says it all. Whether to redirect it to Transpersonal or Cultural anthropology is up to the closing admin. Bearian (talk) 20:42, 24 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.