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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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line-guard
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
A device to fasten the retrieving line to a harpoon point.
piston corer
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
A device for extracting columns of sediment from the ocean floor. Dates for the different layers are obtained by radiocarbon, archaeomagnetic, or uranium series methods.
historical particularism
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
A detailed descriptive approach to anthropology associated with franz boas and his students, and designed as an alternative to the broad generalizing approach favored by ...
bilateral descent
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
A descent ideology in which individuals define themselves as being at the center of a group of kin composed more or less equally of kin from both paternal and maternal lines.
ambilineal descent
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
A descent ideology based on ties traced through either the paternal or the maternal line.
segmentary lineage
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
A descent group in which minimal lineages are encompassed as segments of minor lineages, minor lineages as segments of major lineages, and so on.
tribe
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
A descent and kinship-based group in which subgroups are clearly linked to one another, with the potential of uniting a large number of local groups for common defense or warfare. ...
Sub-categories
- Applied anthropology (144)
- Archaeology (76)
- Cultural anthropology (31040)
- Ethnology (33)
- Forensic anthropology (31)
- Mythology (5625)
- Physical anthropology (13414)