Cultural anthropology

Cultural anthropology

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

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Community identity

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

An effort by speakers to identify themselves with a specific locality and to distinguish themselves from outsiders.

Cattle complex

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

An east African socioeconomic system in which cattle represent social status as well as wealth.

Preform

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

An early preliminary stage in the reduction-manufacture of a flaked stone artifact.

Pangenesis

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

An early and inaccurate idea that acquired characteristics of parents are transmitted to their offspring.

Revolution

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

An attempt to overthrow the existing form of political organization, the principles of economic production and distribution, and the allocation of social status.

Processual archaeology

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

An approach that stresses the dynamic relationship between social and economic aspects of culture and the environment as the basis for understanding the processes of culture, change. Uses the ...

Multilineal evolutionism

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

An anthropological approach that focuses on the development of individual cultures or populations without insisting that all follow the same evolutionary pattern.