Cultural anthropology

Cultural anthropology

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

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Progeny price

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

A gift from the husband and his kin to the wife and her kin before, at, or after marriage; legitimises children born to the woman as members of the husband's descent group.

Text

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

Something that is creatively "read," interpreted, and assigned meaning by each person who receives it; includes any media-borne image, such as Carnaval.

Colonialism

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

The political, social, economic, and cultural domination of a territory and its people by a foreign power for an extended time.

Mode of production

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

Way of organising production-a set of social relations through which labour is deployed to wrest energy from nature by means of tools, skills, and knowledge.

Holistic

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

Interested in the whole of the human condition: past, present, and future; biology, society, language, and culture.

Cargo cults

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

Postcolonial, acculturative religious movements, common in Melanesia, that attempt to explain European domination and wealth and to achieve similar success magically by mimicking European behavior.