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University of Michigan
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The field of anthropology as a whole, consisting of cultural, archaeological, biological, and linguistic anthropology.
Industry:Anthropology
Beliefs, customs, and specialists concerned with ensuring health and preventing and curing illness; a cultural universal.
Industry:Anthropology
Once a synonym for "ethnic group," designating a single culture sharing a language, religion, history, territory, ancestry, and kinship; now usually a synonym for state or nation-state.
Industry:Anthropology
A society ruled by women; unknown to ethnography.
Industry:Anthropology
The lower, or underprivileged, group in a stratified system.
Industry:Anthropology
A legal code, including trial and enforcement; characteristic of state-organized societies.
Industry:Anthropology
Cultural traditions that extend beyond national boundaries.
Industry:Anthropology
Procedures by which ethnographers discover and record connections of kinship, descent, and marriage, using diagrams and symbols.
Industry:Anthropology
The original inhabitants of particular territories; often descendants of tribespeople who live on as culturally distinct colonized peoples, many of whom aspire to autonomy.
Industry:Anthropology
The comparative study of the musics of the world and of music as an aspect of culture and society.
Industry:Anthropology
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