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Cultural anthropology

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

Contributors in Cultural anthropology

Cultural anthropology

Apollo

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

Apollo is one of the most important and complex of the Olympian deities in ancient Greek religion and mythology. Apollo has been recognized as a god of light and the sun, truth and prophecy, healing, ...

Dionysus

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

Dionysus was the God of the harvest of grapes, winemaking and wine, of ritual madness and ecstasy "in Greek mythology. He is the God of the Epiphany (Epiphany), "the God who comes", and "foreign ...

Hestia

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

In Ancient Greek Religion Hestia is the virgin goddess of the hearth, architecture, and the right ordering of domesticity, the family and the state. In Greek mythology she is a daughter of Cronus and ...

Demeter

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

In ancient Greek religion and myth, Demeter is the goddess of the harvest, who presided over grains and the fertility of the earth. Though Demeter is often described simply as the goddess of the ...

Poseidon

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

Poseidon is one of the twelve Olympian deities of the Pantheon in Greek mythology. His main possession is the ocean, and it is called "the God of the sea".

gender stratification

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

The unequal distribution of rewards (social resources, power, prestige and personal freedom) between women and men, reflecting their different positions in the social hierarchy.

urbanization

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

Proportional increase in the number of people living in cities than in rural areas.

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