Cultural anthropology

Cultural anthropology

Of or pertaining to the branch of anthropology that examines culture as a scientifically meaningful concept.

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marianismo

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

The spanish and latin american ideal of women being modest, restrained, virtuous, and nurturing. Women are expected to be sexually abstinent before marriage and passive in response to their husbands' ...

osteodontokeratic culture

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

An archaeological culture based upon tools made of bone, teeth, and hoary.

taboo

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

Set apart as sacred and off-limits to ordinary people; prohibition backed by supernatural sanctions.

patron client relationship

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

A mutually obligatory arrangement between an individual who has authority, social status, wealth, or some other personal resource (the patron) and another person who benefits from his or her support ...

ancestral spirits

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

Souls or ghosts of ancestors. A belief in ancestral spirits is consistent with the widespread belief that humans have at least two parts--a physical body and some kind of non-physical spirit. The ...

multiplier effect

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

A term used in systems thinking to describe the process by which changes in one field of human activity (subsystem) sometimes act to promote changes in other fields (subsystems) and in turn act on ...