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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
field independence
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
The tendency to see the objects in one's field of vision as discrete units, distinct from the field as a whole.
life span
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
life span, is the theoretical maximum age, the theory of maximum life time
French structuralism
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
The theoretical school founded by Claude Levi-Strauss that finds the key to cultural diversity in cognitive structures.
field dependence
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
The tendency to see the field of vision as a single unit, with separate objects existing only as part of the whole.
nucleation
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
The tendency of populations to cluster in settlements of increasing size and density.
secular trend
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
The tendency over the last hundred or so years for each succeeding generation to mature earlier and become, on the average, larger.
ethnocentrism
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
The tendency to judge the customs of other societies by the standards of one's own ethnographic present Describes the point in time at which a society or culture is frozen when ethnographic data ...
