Cultural anthropology

Cultural anthropology

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

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Tort

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

A crime against individuals or their property rather than against the society as a whole. In modern western societies, torts are settled in civil cases rather than criminal ones. Torts include any ...

Tradition-oriented personality

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

A personality that has a strong emphasis on doing things the same way that they have always been done. Individuals with this sort of personality are less likely to try new things and to seek new ...

Trancing

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

Activity that results in an altered state of consciousness in which an individual is in a hypnotic-like mental state or at least profoundly absorbed. This is a common tool used by shamans and others ...

Transculturation

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

What happens to an individual when he or she moves to a new society and adopts their culture. See acculturation.

Independent invention

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

Development of the same cultural trait or pattern in separate cultures as a result of comparable needs and circumstances.

Rickets

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

Nutritional disease caused by a shortage of vitamin D; interferes with the absorption of calcium and causes softening and deformation of the bones.

Postmodernism

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

A style and movement in architecture that succeeded modernism. Compared with modernism, postmodernism is less geometric, less functional, less austere, more playful, and more willing to include ...