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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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physical environment
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
The complex of inanimate elements that surround an organism.
cultural environment
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
The complex of products of human endeavor, including technology and social institutions.
descent ideology
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
The concept of kinship as a basis of unambiguous membership in a group and possibly of property rights and political obligations.
relativism
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
The concept that a cultural system can be viewed only in terms of the principles, background, frame of reference, and history that characterize it.
macula
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
The central area of the retina, consisting of cones only.
domestic cycle
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
The changes in household organization that result from a series of demographic events.
Sub-categories
- Applied anthropology (144)
- Archaeology (76)
- Cultural anthropology (31040)
- Ethnology (33)
- Forensic anthropology (31)
- Mythology (5625)
- Physical anthropology (13414)