Cultural anthropology

Cultural anthropology

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

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Foragers

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

People who live in more or less isolated, small societies and obtain their food by foraging wild plants and hunting wild animals. Foragers generally have a passive dependence on what the environment ...

Hunters and gatherers

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

Ideal behaviour

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

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

Hyperendemic

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

An endemic disease present at a continuously high frequency within a population.

Humoral pathology

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

A naturalistic medical system based on the idea that our bodies have four important fluids or humors--blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile. Each humour is thought to have its own "complexion. " ...

Horticulturalists

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

People who obtain most of their food by low intensity farming. This subsistence pattern involves at least part time planting and tending of domesticated food plants. Pigs, chickens, or other ...

Homosexual

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

An individual who is sexually and/or emotionally attracted by members of his or her own gender. Homosexuality generally refers to sexual interaction between members of the same gender. In north ...