Cultural anthropology

Cultural anthropology

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

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Emic

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

The research strategy that focuses on native explanations and criteria of significance.

Stratification

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

Characteristic of a system with socioeconomic strata, sharp social divisions based on unequal access to wealth and power; see stratum.

Increased equity

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

A reduction in absolute poverty and a fairer (more even) distribution of wealth.

Western cultures

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

European cultures and cultures derived from europe, such as the united states and canada. Western societies predominantly speak a european language and maintain european-like economic, political, ...

A culture bound syndrome reported occasionally among the northern algonkian language group of indians (chippewa , ojibwa , and cree ) living around the great lakes of canada and the united states. ...

World-view

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

The complex of motivations, perceptions, and beliefs that we internalise and that strongly affect how we interact with other people and things in nature. World-view is a set of feelings and basic ...

Transvestite

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

A person who wears the clothes and bodily adornment normally associated with the other gender. Transvestitism, or cross dressing, is not necessarily connected with homosexuality.