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Cultural anthropology
Of or pertaining to the branch of anthropology that examines culture as a scientifically meaningful concept.
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Cultural anthropology
Home base
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
A location to which males and females return in human societies.
Secondary datum
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
A local base measuring point at a known distance from the main horizontal or vertical datum points.
Patrilineage
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
A lineage whose members brace their genealogies through specified male links to a common male ancestor.
Matrilineage
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
A lineage whose members trace their genealogies through specified female links to a common female ancestor.
Focus
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
A chronologically limited cultural unit within a local culture sequence, characterised by sufficient diagnostic traits to set it apart from all other units. A phase is generally represented by 2 or ...
