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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

cognates

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

Words so similar from one language to the next as to suggest that both are variants of a single ancestral prototype.

sharecropping

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

Working land owned by others for a share of the yield.

hemophilia A recessive

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

X-linked trait characterized by excessive bleeding due to faulty clotting mechanism.

horizontal circle

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

With major surveying instruments, the graduated horizontal table around which the sighting telescope revolves; used to measure the horizontal angle.

level notes

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

Written observations on all significant characteristics of an excavated level.

cognitive processes

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

Cognitive processes are ways of perceiving and ordering the world.

diffusion

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

When elements of one culture spread to another without wholesale dislocation or migration.

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