Cultural anthropology

Cultural anthropology

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

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Industrial Age

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

A cultural stage characterised by the first use of complex machinery, factories, urbanization, and other economic and general social changes from strictly agricultural societies.

Tradition

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

A continuum of gradational culture change through time representing the unbroken development of a single culture.

Historical particularism

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

A detailed descriptive approach to anthropology associated with franz boas and his students, and designed as an alternative to the broad generalising approach favoured by anthropologists such as ...

Bilateral descent

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

A descent ideology in which individuals define themselves as being at the centre of a group of kin composed more or less equally of kin from both paternal and maternal lines.

Ambilineal descent

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

A descent ideology based on ties traced through either the paternal or the maternal line.

Segmentary lineage

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

A descent group in which minimal lineages are encompassed as segments of minor lineages, minor lineages as segments of major lineages, and so on.

Tribe

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

A descent and kinship-based group in which subgroups are clearly linked to one another, with the potential of uniting a large number of local groups for common defence or warfare. Unlike bands, ...