Cultural anthropology

Cultural anthropology

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

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Morphology

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

The study of structure, including the system by which speech units are combined to form meaningful words.

Matrilineal descent group

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

A unilineal descent group in which membership is inherited through the maternal line.

Patrilineal descent group

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

A unilineal descent group in which membership is inherited through the paternal line.

A unilineal descent group usually comprising more than ten generations consisting of members who claim a common ancestry even though they cannot trace step-by-step their exact connexion to a common ...

Kill-site

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

A type of special activity site where large game animals were killed and butchered.

Mechanical solidarity

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

A type of social integration based on mutuality of interests found in those societies with little division of labor. Modernization the process of social change whereby traditional societies take on ...

Simple random sampling

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

A type of probabilistic sampling where the areas to be sampled are chosen using a table of random numbers. Drawbacks include (1) defining the site's boundaries beforehand; (2) the nature of random ...