Anthropology, Education, Sociology, and Social Phenomena

Cultural Anthropology

Study of social phenomena which characterize the learned, shared, and transmitted social activities of particular ethnic groups with focus on the causes, consequences, and complexities of human social and cultural variability.

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Study of social phenomena which characterize the learned, shared, and transmitted social activities of particular ethnic groups with focus on the causes, consequences, and complexities of human social and cultural variability.

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6 entry terms
  • Anthropology, Cultural
  • Ethnography
  • Material Culture
  • Culture, Material
  • Ethnographies
  • Material Cultures

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12 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, education, ethics, history, instrumentation, legislation & jurisprudence, methods, organization & administration, standards, statistics & numerical data, trends.

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IM as the discipline (education, history, etc) only; NIM with no qualifiers as a coordinate

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  • Anthropology (1966-1967)
  • Australoid Race (1966-1967)
  • Blacks (1966-1967)
  • Caucasoid Race (1966-1967)
  • Ethnology (1966-1967)
  • Ethnopsychology (1966-1967)
  • Mongoloid Race (1966-1967)

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Cultural Anthropology. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D000884. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D000884
  2. Cultural Anthropology. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_anthropology
  3. Cultural Anthropology. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28598