Cultural anthropology

Cultural anthropology

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

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Etic

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

A perspective in ethnography that uses the concepts and categories of the anthropologist's culture to describe another culture.

Protohistoric

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

A period prior to the beginning of written records in an area, but after that area has been initially mentioned in reports written elsewhere.

Unilineal evolution

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

A pattern of cultural progress through a sequence of evolutionary stages; the basic premise of the early cultural evolutionists.

Index fossil

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

A paleospecies that had a very wide geographical distribution but existed for a relatively short period of time, either becoming extinct or evolving into something else.

Ordeal

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

A painful and possibly life-threatening test inflicted on someone suspected of a wrongdoing.

Innominate bones

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

A pair of bones that, with the sacrum section of the vertebral column, make up the pelvis. The innominates join in the front of the pelvis at the pubic symphysis.