Cultural anthropology

Cultural anthropology

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

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Prophet

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

An individual who receives divine revelation concerning a restructuring of religious practises and usually of society as well. Prophets call for dramatic change while priesthoods usually act as ...

Raiding

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

Surprise predatory attacks directed against other communities or societies. The primary objective of raiding usually is to plunder and then to escape unharmed with the stolen goods. In some ...

Reasonable man standard of law

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

The idea that legal judgments should be made based on what would be acceptable to a reasonable man in the society. Jury systems in the western world are based on this assumption.

Redistribution (or redistributive exchange)

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

An economic exchange intended to distribute a society's wealth in a different way than exists at present. In the western world, charity and progressive income tax systems are examples of ...

A millenarian movement in which the followers focus on recreating and revitalising their indigenous culture in response to tremendous pressure to acculturate to the culture of another society that ...

Omaha naming system

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

A patrilineally based kin naming system in which relatives are lumped together on the basis of descent and gender. Siblings and parallel cousins of the same gender are given the same term of ...

Other-directed personality

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

A personality that is shame oriented. People with this type of personality have ambiguous feelings about right and wrong. When they deviate from a societal norm, they usually don't feel guilty. ...