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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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Rh blood-type system
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
A blood-type system consisting of two major alleles. A mating between an rh - mother and rh + father may produce in the infant the hemolytic disease erythroblastosis fetalis.
Secondary deposit
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
A body of natural or cultural sediments which have been disturbed and re-transported since their original deposition.
Labret
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
A "cuff-link" or pulley-shaped object of stone, bone or wood, inserted in a perforation of the lower lip as an ornament or status symbol by some aboriginal peoples.
Cultural evolution
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
The theory that societal change can be understood by analogy with the processes underlying the biological evolution of species.
Structural functionalism
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
The theory that the central function of the various aspects of a society is to maintain the social structure--the society's pattern of social relations and institutions.
Plate tectonics
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
The theory that the surface of the earth is divided into a number of plates that move in relationship to each other. Some of these plates carry the continents.
Cultural materialism
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
The theory, espoused by Marvin Harris, that ideas, values, and religious beliefs are the means or products of adaptation to environmental conditions ("material constraints").
