Cultural anthropology

Cultural anthropology

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

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Interview schedule

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

Ethnographic tool for structuring a formal interview. A prepared form (usually printed or mimeographed) that guides interviews with households or individuals being compared systematically. Contrasts ...

Revitalization movements

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

Movements that occur in times of change, in which religious leaders emerge and undertake to alter or revitalise a society.

Archaeological anthropology (prehistoric archaeology)

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

The study of human behaviour and cultural patterns and processes through the culture's material remains.

Semitic race

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

Any of several races of people speaking Afro-Asiatic languages, esp. Arabic, Hebrew, Aramaic, Ethiopic, and other ancient languages.

2012 phenomenon

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

A range of eschatological beliefs that cataclysmic or transformative events will occur in the year of 2012. This date is regarded as the end-date of a 5, 125-year-long cycle in the Meso-American Long ...

brazen bull

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

A torture device developed in the 1500s. It is a large, hollow brass bull that people are forced inside. Once sealed within, the device is heated from beneath by an open fire, causing the brass to ...

heterogeneous society

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

A society consisting of many different ethnic and/or "racial" groups, social classes, languages and/or dialects, and cultural traditions. The u. S. And canada are heterogeneous societies. See ...