- Industry: Education
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The arts; people express themselves creatively in dance, music, song, painting, sculpture, pottery, cloth, storytelling, verse, prose, drama, and comedy.
Industry:Anthropology
An object or event that evokes an aesthetic reaction-a sense of beauty, appreciation, harmony, and/or pleasure; the quality, production, expression, or realm of what is beautiful or of more than ordinary significance; the class of objects subject to aesthetic criteria.
Industry:Anthropology
Behavior that is formal, stylized, repetitive, and stereotyped, performed earnestly as a social act; rituals are held at set times and places and have liturgical orders. Shaman-A part-time religious practitioner who mediates between ordinary people and supernatural beings and forces.
Industry:Anthropology
Land, labor, technology, and capital-major productive resources.
Industry:Anthropology
All a person's material assets, including income, land, and other types of property; the basis of economic status.
Industry:Anthropology
Dominant structural position in the world system; consists of the strongest and most powerful states with advanced systems of production.
Industry:Anthropology
All a person's material assets, including income, land, and other types of property; the basis of economic status.
Industry:Anthropology
Include scientific medicine; theories that explain illness in impersonal systemic terms.
Industry:Anthropology
