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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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Ponzi scheme
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
A scam, named after its most prolific perpetrator Charle's Ponzi who ran a large scale version of the trick in 1920. The scheme relies on attracting investors using empty promises about a potential ...
Chinese diaspora
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
The Chinese diaspora is a term that refers to the mass migration of Chinese citizens in the 19th and 20th centuries. This migration was often the effect of wars and starvation in Mainland China, ...
Iceni
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
The Iceni (or Eceni) were a British tribe who inhabited an read of East Anglia corresponding roughly to present day Norfolk between the 1st century BC and the 1st century AD. The Iceni revolted ...
Dual inheritance theory
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
Dual inheritance theory (DIT), also known as gene–culture coevolution or biocultural evolution was developed in the late 1970s and early 1980s to explain how human behaviour is a product of two ...
Biocultural anthropology
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
Biocultural anthropology is the scientific exploration of the relationships between human biology and culture. Contemporary biocultural anthropologists view culture as having several key roles in ...
