Cultural anthropology

Cultural anthropology

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

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Special purpose money

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

Objects that serve as a medium of exchange in only limited contexts. In societies that have it, usually there are certain goods and services that can be purchased only with their specific form of ...

A foraging subsistence pattern in which a limited number of species are hunted or gathered. Aquatic and equestrian foragers usually are specialised in their food quest. specialised foraging can be ...

Speech

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

A broad term referring to patterned verbal behavior. See language.

Spirit

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

A supernatural being who has less power than a god or goddess. It may be an ancestral spirit or simply a spirit that inhabits a natural object or even all of nature. A belief in spirits is the ...

Stereotype

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

A fixed notion or conception of people based on their group identity. For instance, assuming that a particular chinese businessman is going to be greedy and dishonest because you believe that all ...

Syncretism

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

An amalgamation or incorporation of traditional and introduced alien culture traits. In southern mexico and guatemala, the maya indian combination of mutually exclusive indigenous religious and ...

Temperate

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

Referring to the regions of the world mostly in the middle latitudes where winter temperatures regularly fall below freezing and summers are warm. In the northern hemisphere, the temperate regions ...