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The study of human biological variation in time and space; includes evolution, genetics, growth and development, and primatology.
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
Doctrine that invokes a realm of justice and morality beyond and superior to particular countries, cultures, and religions. Human rights, usually seen as vested in individuals, would include the right to speak freely, to hold religious beliefs without persecution, and to not be enslaved, or imprisoned without charge.
Industry:Anthropology
One of Marx's opposed classes; owners of the means of production (factories, mines, large farms, and other sources of subsistence).
Industry:Anthropology
Movement throughout the year by the whole pastoral group (men, women, and children) with their animals; more generally, such constant movement in pursuit of strategic resources.
Industry:Anthropology
Subdivision of linguistics that studies languages over time.
Industry:Anthropology
A policy of extending the rule of a nation or empire over foreign nations or of taking and holding foreign colonies.
Industry:Anthropology
Profit-oriented principle of exchange that dominates in states, particularly industrial states. Goods and services are bought and sold, and values are determined by supply and demand.
Industry:Anthropology
Something that is creatively "read," interpreted, and assigned meaning by each person who receives it; includes any media-borne image, such as Carnaval.
Industry:Anthropology
The political, social, economic, and cultural domination of a territory and its people by a foreign power for an extended time.
Industry:Anthropology
