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Cultural anthropology
Of or pertaining to the branch of anthropology that examines culture as a scientifically meaningful concept.
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marianismo
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
The spanish and latin american ideal of women being modest, restrained, virtuous, and nurturing. Women are expected to be sexually abstinent before marriage and passive in response to their husbands' ...
osteodontokeratic culture
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
An archaeological culture based upon tools made of bone, teeth, and hoary.
taboo
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
Set apart as sacred and off-limits to ordinary people; prohibition backed by supernatural sanctions.
patron client relationship
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
A mutually obligatory arrangement between an individual who has authority, social status, wealth, or some other personal resource (the patron) and another person who benefits from his or her support ...
ancestral spirits
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
Souls or ghosts of ancestors. A belief in ancestral spirits is consistent with the widespread belief that humans have at least two parts--a physical body and some kind of non-physical spirit. The ...
multiplier effect
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
A term used in systems thinking to describe the process by which changes in one field of human activity (subsystem) sometimes act to promote changes in other fields (subsystems) and in turn act on ...
biological anthropology
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
The study of human biological variation in time and space; includes evolution, genetics, growth and development, and primatology.
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