Cultural anthropology

Cultural anthropology

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

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Joint family household

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

A complex family unit formed through polygyny or polyandry or through the decision of married siblings to live together m the absence of their parents.

Syndrome

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

A complex of symptoms related to a single cause.

Closed corporate community

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

A community that strongly emphasises community identity and discourages outsiders from settling there by restricting land use to village members and prohibiting the sale or lease of property to ...

Jasper

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

A colloquial term for some varieties of chert. Usually refers to dark red or dull-green, fine-grained, semi-translucent banded materials.

A collective term for the members of small-scale mobile or semi-sedentary societies, whose subsistence is mainly focused on hunting game and gathering wild plants and fruits; organisational structure ...

Subsurface detection

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

A collective name lot a variety of remote sensing techniques operating at ground level, and including hosing (or bowsing), augering, magnetometer, and radar techniques.