Cultural anthropology

Cultural anthropology

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

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Art

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

An object or event that evokes an aesthetic reaction-a sense of beauty, appreciation, harmony, and/or pleasure; the quality, production, expression, or realm of what is beautiful or of more than ...

Behaviour that is formal, stylized, repetitive, and stereotyped, performed earnestly as a social act; rituals are held at set times and places and have liturgical orders. Shaman-A part-time religious ...

Wealth

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

All a person's material assets, including income, land, and other types of property; the basis of economic status.

Core

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

Dominant structural position in the world system; consists of the strongest and most powerful states with advanced systems of production.

Naturalistic disease theories

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

Include scientific medicine; theories that explain illness in impersonal systemic terms.

Postmodernity

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

Condition of a world in flux, with people on the move, in which established groups, boundaries, identities, contrasts, and standards are reaching out and breaking down.