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Long-term study of a community, region, society, culture, or other unit, usually based on repeated visits.
Industry:Anthropology
Explanation that establishes a correlation or interrelationship between social customs. When customs are functionally interrelated, if one changes, the others also change.
Industry:Anthropology
Substance manufactured in specialized cells in the lower layers of the epidermis (outer skin layer); melanin cells in dark skin produce more melanin than do those in light skin.
Industry:Anthropology
As used by Antonio Gramsci, a stratified social order in which subordinates comply with domination by internalizing its values and accepting its "naturalness. "
Industry:Anthropology
Nonindustrial system of plant cultivation in which plots lie fallow for varying lengths of time.
Industry:Anthropology
An association between two or more variables such that when one changes (varies), the other(s) also change(s) (covaries); for example, temperature and sweating.
Industry:Anthropology
Characteristic research procedure among social scientists other than anthropologists. Studies society through sampling, statistical analysis, and impersonal data collection.
Industry:Anthropology
Type of expanded family household including siblings and their spouses and children.
Industry:Anthropology
Form (usually printed) used by sociologists to obtain comparable information from respondents. Often mailed to and filled in by research subjects rather than by the researcher.
Industry:Anthropology
Latin for I. In kinship charts, the point from which one views an egocentric genealogy.
Industry:Anthropology
