Cultural anthropology

Cultural anthropology

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

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Formal organisation

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

A group that restricts membership and makes use of officially designated positions and roles, formal rules and regulations, and a bureaucratic structure.

Matriclan

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

A group that claims but cannot trace their descent through the female line from a common female ancestor.

Regional continuity model

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

A hypothesis which states that modem h. Sapiens had multiple origins from existing local populations. Each local population of archaic humans gave rise to a population of modem h. Sapiens.

Secondary burial

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

A human interment which was moved and re-buried aboriginally.

Family household

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

A household formed on the basis of kinship and marriage.

Ecclesiastical cult

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

A highly complex religious system headed by a full-time priest.

A highly flexible and complex system of communication that allows for the exchange of detailed information about both interior and exterior conditions. As a creative and open system, new signals may ...