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Digging through the layers of deposits that make up an archaeological site.
Industry:Anthropology
The study of human behavior and cultural patterns and processes through the culture's material remains.
Industry:Anthropology
A systematic field of study or body of knowledge that aims, through experiment, observation, and deduction, to produce reliable explanations of phenomena, with reference to the material and physical world.
Industry:Anthropology
The study of lexical (vocabulary) contrasts and classifications in various languages.
Industry:Anthropology
Movements that occur in times of change, in which religious leaders emerge and undertake to alter or revitalize a society.
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
Procedures by which ethnographers discover and record connections of kinship, descent, and marriage, using diagrams and symbols.
Industry:Anthropology
Cultural traditions that extend beyond national boundaries.
Industry:Anthropology
Oversimplified but strongly held ideas about the characteristics of males and females.
Industry:Anthropology
The comparative study of the musics of the world and of music as an aspect of culture and society.
Industry:Anthropology
