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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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Social anthropology
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
A subdiscipline of anthropology concerned with the non-biological, behavioural aspects of society; i.e. The social, linguistic, and technological components underlying human behavior. Two important ...
Administrative system
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
A twentieth-century system of ownership in which land is owned and managed by the state; found in china, the soviet union, and some parts of Africa and Latin America.
Theodolite (also optical transit)
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
A transit with accurate optical readout of vertical and horizontal angles.
Sex-limited trait
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
A trait that is expressed in only one of the sexes.
Sex-controlled trait
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
A trait that is expressed differently in males and females.
Floodwater farming
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
The practise of planting crops in areas that are flooded every year in the rainy season, the floodwaters thus providing natural irrigation.
Pneumatized
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
The presence of air spaces within some bones of the skull.
