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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

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.

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