Definitions for cultural anthropology
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1. social anthropology, cultural anthropologynoun

   the branch of anthropology that deals with human culture and society

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1. cultural anthropologynoun

   One of four commonly recognized fields of anthropology.

2. Etymology: From cultura, from cultus, perfect passive participle of colere, till, cultivate, worship.

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1. Cultural anthropology

   Cultural anthropology is a branch of anthropology focused on the study of cultural variation among humans. It is in contrast to social anthropology, which perceives cultural variation as a subset of a posited anthropological constant. The portmanteau term sociocultural anthropology includes both cultural and social anthropology traditions. Anthropologists have pointed out that through culture people can adapt to their environment in non-genetic ways, so people living in different environments will often have different cultures. Much of anthropological theory has originated in an appreciation of and interest in the tension between the local (particular cultures) and the global (a universal human nature, or the web of connections between people in distinct places/circumstances).Cultural anthropology has a rich methodology, including participant observation (often called fieldwork because it requires the anthropologist spending an extended period of time at the research location), interviews, and surveys.

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1. cultural anthropology

   Cultural anthropology is a subfield of anthropology that studies human societies and cultures, their norms, values, practices, beliefs, and social structures. It seeks to understand the complexities of human behavior and experience through the lens of culture, often through methods such as participant observation and fieldwork. Different aspects of culture, including language, art, religion, kinship systems, and social institutions, are examined to gain a better understanding of a specific society or a comparative perspective across societies.

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1. Cultural anthropology

   Cultural anthropology is a branch of anthropology focused on the study of cultural variation among humans, collecting data about the impact of global economic and political processes on local cultural realities. Anthropologists use a variety of methods, including participant observation, interviews and surveys. Their research is often called fieldwork because it involves the anthropologist spending an extended period of time at the research location. One of the earliest articulations of the anthropological meaning of the term "culture" came from Sir Edward Tylor who writes on the first page of his 1897 book: “Culture, or civilization, taken in its broad, ethnographic sense, is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society.” The term "civilization" later gave way to definitions by V. Gordon Childe, with culture forming an umbrella term and civilization becoming a particular kind of culture. The anthropological concept of "culture" reflects in part a reaction against earlier Western discourses based on an opposition between "culture" and "nature", according to which some human beings lived in a "state of nature". Anthropologists have argued that culture is "human nature", and that all people have a capacity to classify experiences, encode classifications symbolically, and teach such abstractions to others.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
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   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Cultural_Anthropology
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