Cultural anthropology

Cultural anthropology

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

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Retouched flake

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

A stone flake which has had one or more edges modified by the deliberate removal of secondary chips.

Prebendal system

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

A system of ownership common in the centralised bureaucratic states that arose in china, mogul India, Peru, and the ottoman empire, in which land was temporarily assigned to administrators or tax ...

Mercantile system

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

A system of ownership common in Europe and elsewhere after the eighteenth century in which land became the private property of individual owners.

Model

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

A system of hypothetical principles that represents the characters of a phenomenon and from which predictions can be made.

Double descent

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

A system of descent in which individuals receive some rights and obligations from the father's side of the family and others from the mother's side.

A system of ceremonial, non-competitive, exchange practised in Melanesia to establish and reinforce alliances. Malinowski's study of this system was influential in shaping the anthropological concept ...