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Cultural anthropology is a branch of anthropology focused on the study of cultural variation among humans. It is in contrast to social anthropology, which...

including archaic humans. Social anthropology studies patterns of behavior, while cultural anthropology studies cultural meaning, including norms and values...

Cultural materialism is an anthropological research orientation first introduced by Marvin Harris in his 1968 book The Rise of Anthropological Theory,...

from cultural anthropology. In the United States, social anthropology is commonly subsumed within cultural anthropology or sociocultural anthropology. The...

George E. Marcus and Michael M. J. Fischer: 20th century social and cultural anthropology has promised its still largely Western readership enlightenment...

In cultural anthropology, reciprocity refers to the non-market exchange of goods or labour ranging from direct barter (immediate exchange) to forms of...

A cultural universal (also called an anthropological universal or human universal) is an element, pattern, trait, or institution that is common to all...

they were during the development of anthropology. For a presentation of modern social and cultural anthropology as they have developed in Britain, France...

culture"), or a counterculture. Within cultural anthropology, the ideology and analytical stance of cultural relativism hold that cultures cannot easily...

most highly developed areas of anthropology and applied anthropology, and is a subfield of social and cultural anthropology that examines the ways in which...

anthropology is a term used to refer to social anthropology and cultural anthropology together. It is one of the four main branches of anthropology....

Visual anthropology is a subfield of social anthropology that is concerned, in part, with the study and production of ethnographic photography, film and...

In cultural anthropology and cultural geography, cultural diffusion, as conceptualized by Leo Frobenius in his 1897/98 publication Der westafrikanische...

Cognitive anthropology is an approach within cultural anthropology and biological anthropology in which scholars seek to explain patterns of shared knowledge...

Cultural Anthropology is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal published by the American Anthropological Association on behalf of the Society for...

in research on culture: biological anthropology linguistic anthropology cultural anthropology archaeology Research in these fields has influenced anthropologists...

Ethnocentrism in social science and anthropology—as well as in colloquial English discourse—means to apply one's own culture or ethnicity as a frame of...

In anthropology and geography, a cultural area, cultural region, cultural sphere, or culture area refers to a geography with one relatively homogeneous...

The Society for Cultural Anthropology (or SCA) is a professional organization for cultural anthropologists based in the United States. It was established...

In cultural anthropology and sociology, redistribution refers to a system of economic exchange involving the centralized collection of goods from members...