- "Cultural anthropology is a branch of anthropology focused on the study of cultural variation among humans."
The study of patterns and practices of human culture, including beliefs, customs, and social norms.
Culture: The shared systems of knowledge, beliefs, values, customs, behaviors, and artifacts that the members of a society use to make sense of their world and to communicate with one another.
Ethnocentrism: The belief in the superiority of one's own culture and the tendency to judge other cultures by the standards of one's own.
Cultural relativism: The practice of judging a culture by its own standards and not by the standards of another culture.
Fieldwork: The method used by cultural anthropologists to collect data, which involves living with and observing a group of people in their natural setting.
Ethnography: A description of a culture or society based on fieldwork.
Participant observation: A research method in which the researcher participates in the activities of the people being studied and observes their behavior.
Interviews: A research method in which the researcher asks questions of individuals or groups to gather data about their beliefs, values, and practices.
Kinship: The system of social relationships that are based on blood or marriage ties.
Gender: The set of roles and expectations that are associated with being male or female in a particular culture.
Race: A cultural category based on perceived physical differences between people.
Class: The system of social stratification based on economic status.
Religion: The system of beliefs, practices, and symbols that are related to the sacred and that bond people together in a community of believers.
Art: The creative expression of a culture, including music, dance, visual arts, and literature.
Material culture: The physical objects that define a culture, such as tools, clothing, buildings, and technology.
Symbolic culture: The shared systems of meaning that define a culture, including language, rituals, and beliefs.
Globalization: The worldwide integration of economic, political, and cultural systems.
- "It is in contrast to social anthropology, which perceives cultural variation as a subset of a posited anthropological constant."
- "The term sociocultural anthropology includes both cultural and social anthropology traditions."
- "Anthropologists have pointed out that through culture, people can adapt to their environment in non-genetic ways."
- "So people living in different environments will often have different cultures."
- "Much of anthropological theory has originated in an appreciation of and interest in the tension between the local (particular cultures) and the global (a universal human nature, or the web of connections between people in distinct places/circumstances)."
- "Cultural anthropology has a rich methodology, including participant observation (often called fieldwork because it requires the anthropologist spending an extended period of time at the research location), interviews, and surveys."
- "Cultural anthropology has a rich methodology, including participant observation (often called fieldwork because it requires the anthropologist spending an extended period of time at the research location)."
- "Cultural anthropology has a rich methodology, including interviews."
- "Cultural anthropology has a rich methodology, including participant observation (often called fieldwork because it requires the anthropologist spending an extended period of time at the research location)."
- "It is in contrast to social anthropology, which perceives cultural variation as a subset of a posited anthropological constant."
- "The term sociocultural anthropology includes both cultural and social anthropology traditions."
- "Cultural anthropology is a branch of anthropology focused on the study of cultural variation among humans."
- "Anthropologists have pointed out that through culture, people can adapt to their environment in non-genetic ways."
- "Much of anthropological theory has originated in an appreciation of and interest in the tension between the local (particular cultures) and the global (a universal human nature, or the web of connections between people in distinct places/circumstances)."
- "Through culture, people can adapt to their environment in non-genetic ways, so people living in different environments will often have different cultures."
- "It is in contrast to social anthropology, which perceives cultural variation as a subset of a posited anthropological constant."
- "Cultural anthropology has a rich methodology, including participant observation, interviews, and surveys."
- "The term sociocultural anthropology includes both cultural and social anthropology traditions."
- "Cultural anthropology has a rich methodology, including participant observation (often called fieldwork because it requires the anthropologist spending an extended period of time at the research location)."