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University of Michigan
Industry: Education
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Political system ruled by men in which women have inferior social and political status, including basic human rights.
Industry:Anthropology
The descriptive, comparative, and historical study of language and of linguistic similarities and differences in time, space, and society.
Industry:Anthropology
A set of words and distinctions that are particularly important to certain groups (those with particular foci of experience or activity), such as types of snow to Eskimos or skiers.
Industry:Anthropology
Attributes (e.g., sex, age, height, weight) that differ from one person or case to the next.
Industry:Anthropology
Nations; large and populous, with social stratification and central governments.
Industry:Anthropology
Weakest structural position in the world system.
Industry:Anthropology
Geographic belt extending about 23 degrees north and south of the equator, between the Tropic of Cancer (north) and the Tropic of Capricorn (south).
Industry:Anthropology
The upper, or privileged, group in a stratified system.
Industry:Anthropology
Agricultural development based on chemical fertilizers, pesticides, 20th-century cultivation techniques, and new crop varieties such as IR-8 ("miracle rice").
Industry:Anthropology
Of the people; originally coined for European peasants; refers to the art, music, and lore of ordinary people, as contrasted with the "high" art or "classic" art of the European elites.
Industry:Anthropology