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One of the three principles of exchange; governs exchange between social equals; major exchange mode in band and tribal societies.
Industry:Anthropology
A style and movement in architecture that succeeded modernism. Compared with modernism, postmodernism is less geometric, less functional, less austere, more playful, and more willing to include elements from diverse times and cultures; postmodern now describes comparable developments in music, literature, visual art, and anthropology.
Industry:Anthropology
Set apart as sacred and off-limits to ordinary people; prohibition backed by supernatural sanctions.
Industry:Anthropology
Distinctly human; transmitted through learning; traditions and customs that govern behavior and beliefs.
Industry:Anthropology
The research strategy that focuses on native explanations and criteria of significance.
Industry:Anthropology
Planning fallacy of viewing less-developed countries as an undifferentiated group; ignoring cultural diversity and adopting a uniform approach (often ethnocentric) for very different types of project beneficiaries.
Industry:Anthropology
A population's system of production, distribution, and consumption of resources.
Industry:Anthropology
A person's habitual sexual attraction to, and activities with: persons of the opposite sex, heterosexuality; the same sex, homosexuality; or both sexes, bisexuality.
Industry:Anthropology
A scientifically identified health threat caused by a bacterium, virus, fungus, parasite, or other pathogen.
Industry:Anthropology
Of a key consultant or narrator; provides a personal cultural portrait of existence or change in a culture.
Industry:Anthropology
