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Interested in the whole of the human condition: past, present, and future; biology, society, language, and culture.
Industry:Anthropology
Way of organizing production-a set of social relations through which labor is deployed to wrest energy from nature by means of tools, skills, and knowledge.
Industry:Anthropology
The political, social, economic, and cultural domination of a territory and its people by a foreign power for an extended time.
Industry:Anthropology
Something that is creatively "read," interpreted, and assigned meaning by each person who receives it; includes any media-borne image, such as Carnaval.
Industry:Anthropology
A policy of extending the rule of a nation or empire over foreign nations or of taking and holding foreign colonies.
Industry:Anthropology
Subdivision of linguistics that studies languages over time.
Industry:Anthropology
Movement throughout the year by the whole pastoral group (men, women, and children) with their animals; more generally, such constant movement in pursuit of strategic resources.
Industry:Anthropology
One of Marx's opposed classes; owners of the means of production (factories, mines, large farms, and other sources of subsistence).
Industry:Anthropology
Form of sociopolitical organization usually based on horticulture or pastoralism. Socioeconomic stratification and centralized rule are absent in tribes, and there is no means of enforcing political decisions.
Industry:Anthropology
Distinctly human; transmitted through learning; traditions and customs that govern behavior and beliefs.
Industry:Anthropology
