Legal anthropology, also known as the anthropology of laws, is a sub-discipline of anthropology that uses an interdisciplinary approach to "the cross-cultural...

Anthropology is the scientific study of humanity, concerned with human behavior, human biology, cultures, societies, and linguistics, in both the present...

Political anthropology is the comparative study of politics in a broad range of historical, social, and cultural settings. Political anthropology has its...

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Association for Africanist Anthropology (AfAA) Association for Feminist Anthropology (AFA) Association for Political and Legal Anthropology (APLA) Association...

capitalist economies. The term "cargo cult" was introduced to the field of anthropology in 1945 around the end of World War II, though similar previous phenomena...

Ronald Cohen 1978 "Ethnicity: Problem and Focus in Anthropology", Annual Review of Anthropology 7: 383–384 Palo Alto: Stanford University Press James...

usage of the term may conflict with anthropological definitions. In the United States, Native American tribes are legally considered to have "domestic dependent...

Filipino Chief In Botswana, the reigning kgosis of the various tribes are legally empowered to serve as advisers to the government as members of the Ntlo...

In anthropology, an age set is a social category or corporate social group, consisting of people of similar age, who have a common identity, maintain close...

(1962). "Village Exogamy in Northernmost India". Southwestern Journal of Anthropology. 18 (1): 55–58. doi:10.1086/soutjanth.18.1.3629123. JSTOR 3629123. S2CID 131367161...

The idea was originally proposed by Stanley J. Tambiah, a professor of anthropology, in a 1977 article entitled "The Galactic Polity: The structure of Political...

Cultural anthropology is a branch of anthropology focused on the study of cultural variation among humans. It is in contrast to social anthropology, which...

different positions in the formalist–substantivist debate in political anthropology. In Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance (1985)...

semiotics, anthropology, and law, among other topics. She has been editor of Law & Social Inquiry and of PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review....

larger than an extended family or clan. The general consensus of modern anthropology sees the average number of members of a social band at the simplest level...

studied anthropology under Bronisław Malinowski. He returned to South Africa in 1935 and in 1936 was appointed Lecturer in Social Anthropology and Native...

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dominance and privilege are held by men. The term patriarchy is used both in anthropology to describe a family or clan controlled by the father or eldest male...

In sociology and anthropology, an age grade or age class is a form of social organization based on age, within a series of such categories, through which...

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Review Editorial: Emerging Themes in Legal and Political Anthropology". PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review. 45 (2): 304–310. doi:10.1111/plar...

Women (CEDAW) have called for a unification of legal systems within countries. In legal anthropology and sociology, following research that noted that...

January 1945) is Professor of African and African American Studies and of Anthropology, Oppenheimer Fellow in African Studies at Harvard University. He is recognised...

necessarily states, but having monarchic representation or government. In anthropological theory, one model of human social development rooted in ideas of cultural...

anthropology Historical anthropology Anthropology of gender & sexuality Kinship & family Legal anthropology Media anthropology Medical anthropology Political...

History of anthropology in this article refers primarily to the 18th- and 19th-century precursors of modern anthropology. The term anthropology itself, innovated...

on how some academic disciplines should be classified (e.g., whether anthropology and linguistics are disciplines of social sciences or fields within the...

Biological anthropology, also known as physical anthropology, is a scientific discipline concerned with the biological and behavioral aspects of human...

cultural anthropology. In the United States, social anthropology is commonly subsumed within cultural anthropology or sociocultural anthropology.[citation...