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🗿Intro to Cultural Anthropology
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216 essential vocabulary terms and definitions to know for your Intro to Cultural Anthropology exam

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émile durkheim

A

A.R. Radcliffe-Brown
Acephalous society
Action anthropology
Adaptive functions
Advocacy anthropology
Aesthetic ethnography
Affinal Kinship
Affinal Relations
Alternative kinship structures
Ancestor worship
Androgynous Societies
Arjun Appadurai
Artistic practices

B

Band
Benjamin Lee Whorf
Bilateral descent
Biocultural approach
Biocultural Diversity
Biological anthropology
Biological determinism
Blended families
Bride price
Bronislaw Malinowski

C

Capitalist agriculture
Centralized Authority
Child marriage
Class struggle
Claude Lévi-Strauss
Clifford Geertz
Cognitive Anthropology
Cognitive approach
Cognitive Modernity
Collateral Relatives
Collective effervescence
Colonial gender roles
Commodification of culture
Communitas
Community-based natural resource management
Community-based participatory research
Complementary and alternative medicine
Conjugal Family
Consanguineal kinship
Conservation Ethnography
Contraception practices
Counter-hegemony
Covert research
Creation myths
Cross-case analysis
Cross-cousin marriage
Cross-cultural comparisons
Cultural Analysis
Cultural appropriation
Cultural Assumptions
Cultural Bias
Cultural Brokerage
Cultural capital
Cultural Commodification
Cultural Determinism
Cultural Domain Analysis
Cultural Hybridization
Cultural Knowledge
Cultural materialism
Cultural Pluralism
Cultural Property
Cultural Resistance
Cultural Schemas
Cultural transmission

D

Descriptive linguistics
Design anthropology
Diglossia
Dual labor market

E

Edward Said
Edward Sapir
Edward T. Hall