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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
Postcolonial, acculturative religious movements, common in Melanesia, that attempt to explain European domination and wealth and to achieve similar success magically by mimicking European behavior.
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
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
Subdivision of linguistics that studies languages over time.
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
Profit-oriented principle of exchange that dominates in states, particularly industrial states. Goods and services are bought and sold, and values are determined by supply and demand.
Industry:Anthropology
A gift from the husband and his kin to the wife and her kin before, at, or after marriage; legitimizes children born to the woman as members of the husband's descent group.
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
