Cultural anthropology

Cultural anthropology

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

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Substantivism

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

A school of economic anthropology that seeks to understand economic processes as the maintenance of an entire cultural order.

Welded tuff

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

A rock formed of consolidated pumice or volcanic ash. Occasionally used as a raw material for lithic artifacts.

SLAR (sideways-looking airborne radar)

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

A remote sensing technique that involves the recording in radar images of the return of pulses of electromagnetic radiation sent out from aircraft (cf. Thermography).

A remote sensing technique involving the placing of a probe into the soil in order to measure the relative rates of neutron flows through the soil. Since stone produces a lower count rate than soil. ...

Thermal prospection

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

A remote sensing method used in aerial reconnaissance. It is based on weak variations in temperature which can be found above buried structures whose thermal properties are different from those of ...

Tipi

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

A relatively large conical skin and pole tent used in the plains area.

Seriation

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

A relative dating technique based on the chronological ordering of a group of artefacts or assemblages, where the most similar are placed adjacent to each other in the series. Two types of seriation ...