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Unequal distribution of rewards (socially valued resources, power, prestige, and personal freedom) between men and women, reflecting their different positions in a social hierarchy.
Industry:Anthropology
Public dichotomy-Contrast between women's role in the home and men's role in public life, with a corresponding social devaluation of women's work and worth.
Industry:Anthropology
A part-time religious practitioner who mediates between ordinary people and supernatural beings and forces.
Industry:Anthropology
Anthropological research in classrooms, homes, and neighborhoods, viewing students as total cultural creatures whose enculturation and attitudes toward education belong to a larger context that includes family, peers, and society.
Industry:Anthropology
A permanent social unit whose members claim common ancestry; fundamental to tribal society.
Industry:Anthropology
Cultivation of plants and domestication (stockbreeding) of animals; first developed in the Middle East 10,000 to 12,000 years ago.
Industry:Anthropology
Of applied anthropology; the belief that anthropologists should avoid practical matters and concentrate on research, publication, and teaching.
Industry:Anthropology
The research strategy that emphasizes the observer's rather than the natives' explanations, categories, and criteria of significance.
Industry:Anthropology
