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Anthropology
The study of human beings and human ancestors through time. Focuses on relation to physical characteristics, environmental effects, social relations and culture. The science of humans.
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prestige goods
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
A term used to designate a limited range of exchange goods to which a society ascribes high status or value.
chiefdom
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
A term used to describe a society that operates on the principle of ranking, i.e. Differential social status. Different lineages are graded on a scale of prestige, calculated by ...
multiplier effect
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
A term used in systems thinking to describe the process by which changes in one field of human activity (subsystem) sometimes act to promote changes in other fields (subsystems) ...
state
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
A term used to describe a social formation defined by distinct territorial boundedness, and characterized by strong central government in which the operation of political power is ...
civilization
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
A term used by anthropologists to describe any society that has cities.
homeostasis
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
A term used in systems thinking to describe the action of negative feedback processes in maintaining the system at a constant equilibrium state.
positive feedback
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
A term used in systems thinking to describe a response in which changing output conditions in the system stimulate further growth in the input; one of the principal factors in ...
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- Applied anthropology (144)
- Archaeology (76)
- Cultural anthropology (31040)
- Ethnology (33)
- Forensic anthropology (31)
- Mythology (5625)
- Physical anthropology (13414)