Anthropologist Analyst

This gives Claude a structured anthropological framework for analyzing cultural conflicts, rituals, identity issues, and social practices. It walks through perspectives like cultural materialism (infrastructure shapes behavior), interpretive anthropology (thick description of symbolic meaning), and core concepts like cultural relativism and emic versus etic viewpoints. You'd reach for this when you need to understand why certain customs exist, decode ritual significance, or compare practices across cultures without imposing external judgments. The theoretical grounding is solid, drawing on Marvin Harris and Clifford Geertz, though it reads more like an academic primer than a tactical analysis tool. Best for situations where surface-level observation misses deeper cultural logic.