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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
Reaves
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
Bronze age stone boundary walls, for instance on Dartmoor, England, which may designate the territorial extent of individual communities.
Rite of solidarity
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
Any ceremony performed for the sake of enhancing the level of social integration among a group of people.
Rock alignment
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
Any artificial arrangement of rocks or boulders into rows or other patterns.
Code sheets
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
Anthropologists' checklists of observed behaviours and inferred motivations for or attitudes toward them.
Informal interview
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
An unstructured question-and-answer session in which the informant is encouraged to follow his or her own train of thought, wherever it may lead.
Neolithic
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
An old world chronological period characterised by the development of agriculture and, hence, an increasing emphasis on sedentism.
Mesolithic
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
An old world chronological period beginning around 10,000 years ago, situated between the palaeolithic and the Neolithic, and associated with the rise to dominance of microliths.
