Cultural anthropology

Cultural anthropology

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

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Black English

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

The social dialect spoken by many african americans. It also known as ebonics.

Boundary maintenance (in reference to ethnic groups)

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

Reinforcing an ethnic group's unity and distinctness by emphasising the traits that set its members apart from others, rather than what they share in common with them.

The cognatic pattern of descent in which an individual is both a member of his mother's matrilineage and his father's patrilineage. Also known as "double descent. " this is not the same as bilateral ...

Bisexual

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

An individual who is sexually and/or emotionally attracted by members of the same and the opposite gender. See heterosexual and homosexual.

Believed behaviour

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

What people honestly believe that they are doing in their lives rather than what they think they should be doing or what they actually are doing. In most societies there is a discrepancy between ...