Cultural anthropology

Cultural anthropology

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

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adaptive mechanism

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

A behavior, strategy, or technique for obtaining food and surviving in a particular environment. Successful adaptive mechanisms provide a selective advantage in the competition for survival with ...

ideology of the descendants

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

The concept of kinship as unambiguous base belonging to a group and possibly property rights and political obligations.

environmental determinism

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

A form of explanation in which the default is that changes in the environment causes changes in human society.

selective pressure

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

Pressure are selective agent for certain individuals within the population, which leads to the change of frequencies in the next generation.

cognitive processes

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

Cognitive processes are ways to organize the world.

Cosmopolitan

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

A person who is free from local, provincial, or national bias or attachment; citizen of the world.

Hera was the wife and one of three sisters of Zeus in the Olympian pantheon of Greek mythology and religion. Her chief function was as the goddess of women and marriage. The cow and the peacock were ...