The paper is devoted to the relation of the historical anthropology and the (general) cultural (or social) anthroplogy. Historical anthroplogy is full established today, but is practiced by the historians without the cooperation with the concepts and researches of the (general) cultural anthropology.
The paper strive to compose the historical anthropology as the subdiscipline of the (general) cultural anthropology and prove this concept on the matter of the relationship of the official and popular religion.