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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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Cultural anthropology
Structured interview
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
An ethnographic data-gathering technique in which large numbers of respondents are asked a set of specific questions.
Unstructured interview
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
An ethnographic data-gathering technique usually used in the early stages of one's fieldwork in which interviewees are asked to respond to broad, open-ended questions.
Adaptation
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
Changes in gene frequencies resulting from selective pressures being placed upon a population by environmental factors; results in a greater fitness of the population to its ecological niche.
Matrifocal
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
Centred on the mother; said of a family situation common to the urban poor worldwide in which the woman and her relationships with her children and her female kin form the core of family life.
Polar bodies
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
Cells that develop in oogenesis, contain little cytoplasm, and do not develop into mature ova.
Rods
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
Cells of the retina of the eye that are sensitive to the presence or absence of light; function in black-and-white vision. ~
Platelets
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
Cell fragments in the blood that function in blood clotting.
